Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Boott, Elizabeth

BOOTT, Elizabeth, artist, b. in Cambridge, Mass. She studied painting on the continent, of Europe, ending her studies in Paris with Couture, remained in that city, and devoted herself mainly to figure-painting. She sent a portrait to the Philadelphia centennial exhibition. Some of her pictures were exhibited in Boston in 1877; and at the mechanics' fair in Boston in 1878 she exhibited “Head of a Tuscan Ox” and “Old Man Reading.” At the national academy exhibition of 1886 she had “Hydrangias” and “Old Woman Spinning.”