M. Jean McLane
| M. Jean McLane | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Myrtle Jean McLane September 14, 1878 Chicago, Illinois |
| Died | January 23, 1964 (aged 85) Stamford, Connecticut |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | School of the Art Institute of Chicago and other places in the U.S. and Europe |
| Known for | Portraits |
| Spouse(s) | John Christen Johansen |
M. Jean McLane, born Myrtyle Jean MacLane (September 14, 1878 – January 23, 1964), was an American portraitist. Her works were exhibited and won awards in the United States and in Europe. She made portrait paintings of women and children. McLane also made portrait paintings of a Greek and Australian Premiers and Elisabeth, Queen of the Belgians.
Myrtle Jean McLane born in Chicago, Illinois on September 14, 1878.
While a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago she met John Christen Johansen and later became his wife. She then had a studio and lived in New York. They had a son John and daughter Margaret. The family spent their summers at Weyborne Hill in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and sometimes traveled to Europe. Their winters were spent in Greenwich Village.
She died in Stamford, Connecticut; Her residence at the time was in New Canaan, Connecticut.
She first studied with John Vanderpoel at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and later in Cincinnati under Frank Duveneck and in New York City under William M. Chase.
McLane also studied in Italy, Spain and France.
Johansen and McLane helped to found the National Foundation of Portrait Painters in 1912. Asked by a group of philanthropists to help depict the Allied Leaders from World War I she provided the only female subject, Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians, This painting today is exhibited in the National Museum of American Art.
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