Louise Herreshoff

Louise Chamberlain Herreshoff (November 29, 1876 – May 14, 1967) was an American painter and collector of porcelain.

Born in Brooklyn, Herreshoff was the only child of a prominent Rhode Island family; at her mother's death when she was four she was taken in by her aunts in Providence to be raised. At the age of six she began art classes with Mary C. Wheeler while attending the Lincoln School, from which she graduated in 1890. Wheeler was famous for taking her students to Europe for summer study, and on one of these visits, in 1895, Herreshoff met Raphaël Collin at Fontenay-aux-Roses. He would become her teacher for the next two summers. In 1898 she moved permanently to France to study with Collin, taking the time while there to make sketching and painting visits elsewhere around the continent. In 1899 she enrolled at the Académie Julian, where she was taught by Jean-Paul Laurens – whose use of color came to have a strong influence on her own style – and by Benjamin Constant. Her 1899 painting Le Repos was accepted into the 1900 Paris Salon, and that same year An Interior was shown at the National Academy of Design. Herreshoff returned to the United States in 1903, in which year she showed paintings at the Rhode Island School of Design. Until 1910 she split her time between Providence and New York, summering along the New England coast. In the latter year she married an employee of General Electric, Charles Eaton, and moved to Schenectady, New York with him, but after three months they separated and she returned to Providence to live with her mother's sister, Elizabeth Dyer, whom she considered a surrogate mother. Between 1921 and 1925 she continued exhibiting, showing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Watercolor Club, the North Shore Art Association in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and the Providence Art Club. Her style has been described as Fauvist.

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