This lovely painting, done in 1905, is by the American artist Jean McLane (1878-1964). Here's something I found about her, and the picture, online:
The identities of the enchanting children depicted ...are not known. Her own children were frequent models for her paintings, though MacLane also painted many commissioned portraits of other children. Following his 1940 interview with the painter, Ernest W. Watson observed, "From the cradle up through the years her youngsters were constantly sketched and painted. Hundreds of drawings and scores of canvases record those joyous years of loving and painting, when, as she has said, she wished for three lives to devote to children: 'One in which to supply their every need, one in which to be entirely free to paint them, and one just to bask in the miracle of them!'"
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This lovely painting, done in 1905, is by the American artist Jean McLane (1878-1964). Here's something I found about her, and the picture, online:
The identities of the enchanting children depicted ...are not known. Her own children were frequent models for her paintings, though MacLane also painted many commissioned portraits of other children. Following his 1940 interview with the painter, Ernest W. Watson observed, "From the cradle up through the years her youngsters were constantly sketched and painted. Hundreds of drawings and scores of canvases record those joyous years of loving and painting, when, as she has said, she wished for three lives to devote to children: 'One in which to supply their every need, one in which to be entirely free to paint them, and one just to bask in the miracle of them!'"
