Artist: Henrietta De Beaulieu Dering Johnston
Date: 1711
Museum: Gibbes Museum of Art (Charleston, United States)
Technique: Paper
Henrietta Johnston is known as the first professional female artist in America and the first pastelist. A Huguenot by descent, Johnston and her family fled France for England in the late seventeenth century. She married Robert Dering, a member of the English gentry with appointments and property in Ireland. After his death between 1698 and 1702, she married Gideon Johnston who became the rector of Saint Philip
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