biography of Mariquita GILL (1861-1915)

Birth place: Montevideo, Uruguay

Addresses: Scituate, MA

Profession: Landscape painter

Studied: Ross Turner; ASL; Académie Julian, Paris, c.1886-88; privately with Alexis-Marie Lahaye in Paris, 1888; privately with Louis-Jules Dumoulin, 1889, in Paris and Auvers

Exhibited: Boston AC, 1889-90, 1902; SNBA, 1897; AIC, 1898-99; PAFA, 1899; Copley Soc.

Comments: From 1885-97, she made a 12-year trip with her mother to Europe. Although she was based in Paris where they kept an apartment, she also traveled widely, painting in Grez, Aix-les-Bains, Geneva, Capri, Venice, and St. Ives. She painted in Giverny during the spring of 1891, and spent that summer back in America. From 1892-97, she rented a summer house at Giverny. She was most influenced by Camille Pisarro, who provided criticism of her work. Among her best works are views of her flower garden at Giverny and plein air atmospheric landscapes. She returned to America in 1897, settling in Scituate by the ocean, and later in Salem. She and her life-long companion, her mother, continued to travel, spending winters in Bermuda and Las Cruces, NM (1908).

Sources: WW01; PHF files; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 347; Falk, Exh. Record Series.