biography of Harriet Beecher STOWE (1811-1896)

Birth place: Litchfield, CT

Profession: Amateur painter of flowers & landscapes, writer

Studied: Hartford Female Seminary

Exhibited: Hartford, 1875

Work: Stowe-Day Found. Coll., Hartford, CT

Comments: Most famous as the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin," she also painted in Brunswick, ME, where she lived with her husband, a profesor at Bowdoin College. Her mother, Roxana Foote Beecher, was also a painter.

Sources: Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists.