Alice Barber Stephens

Alice Barber Stephens (July 1, 1858 - July 13, 1932) was an American painter and engraver, best remembered for her illustrations. Her work regularly appeared in magazines such as Scribner's Monthly, Harper's Weekly, and The Ladies Home Journal.

She was born near Salem, New Jersey, She was the eighth of nine children. Her parents were Samuel Clayton Barber and Mary Owen. She attended local schools. Her Quaker family moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and at age 15 she became a student at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (now Moore College of Art), where she studied wood engraving. She entered the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1876 (the first year women were admitted), where she studied under Thomas Eakins. During this time, she began to use a wider variety of media, including black-and-white oils, wash, charcoal, full-color oils, and watercolors. Among her fellow students at the Academy were Susan MacDowell, Frank Stephens, David Wilson Jordan, Lavinia Ebbinghausen, Thomas Anshutz, and Charles H. Stephens (whom she would marry in 1890).

In 1879, Eakins chose Stephens to illustrate an Academy classroom scene for Scribner's Monthly. The resulting work, , was Stephens' first illustration credit. She later continued her studies at the Drexel Institute under Howard Pyle.

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