biography of Julie Hart BEERS (1835-1913)

Birth place: Pittsfield, MA

Death place: Trenton, NJ

Addresses: NYC, mid 1850s-on; Metuchen, NJ, 1877-85; Trenton, NJ

Profession: Landscape and still-life painter

Studied: most likely with her brother, James

Exhibited: Brooklyn AA, 1864-84; NAD, 1867-85; Boston Athenaeum, 1867-68; PAFA, 1868

Comments: She came to NYC in the mid-1850s with her brothers, James and William Hart (see entries), both well-known painters, and her first husband Marion R. Beers. She signed and exhibited as Julie H. Beers and continued to do so after her remarriage to Peter Kempson in 1877. She visited New Orleans in 1888.

Sources: G&W; Art Annual, XI, obit.; Swan, BA; Thieme-Becker; Cowdrey, NAD; Naylor, NAD. More recently, see Art by American Women: Sellars Collection, 20 with repro. of "Oranges" (painted in New Orleans, 1888).