Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts

ROBERTS, Elizabeth Wentworth

American, 19th – 20th century, female.

Born 16 June 1871, in Philadelphia; died 1927.

Painter. Figures, landscapes.

Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts studied in Philadelphia under Elizabeth Bonsall and Henry Rankin Poore and in Paris under William Bouguereau, Tony Robert-Fleury, Jules Lefebvre and Luc Olivier-Merson.

Museum and Gallery Holdings

Boston (Isabella Stewart Gardner Mus.): River

Philadelphia (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Gal.): Boy with a Violin

Auction Records

Bolton, 11 Sept 1987: Figures in the Sand (oil on canvas, 24 ? 30 ins/61 ? 76.2 cm) USD 16,000

Boston, 11 Nov 2000: Shaded Archway (1898, oil on canvas, 29 ? 24 ins/74 ? 61 cm) USD 2,900

Boston, 9 March 2001: Concord, May (oil on canvas, 28 ? 36 ins/72 ? 92 cm) USD 13,000

Boston, 10 May 2002: Morning Quiet, Figures on a Beach (oil on canvas, 24 ? 30 ins/60 ? 77 cm) USD 37,500

New Orleans, 8 June 2002: California Landscape (1920, oil on canvas, 24 ? 32 ins/61 ? 81 cm) USD 5,500

Florida, 18 Feb 2003: Autumn Landscape in Mountains (oil on canvas, 24 ? 36 ins/61 ? 91 cm) USD 2,400

Boston, 10 Sept 2004: Winter View, Concord, Massachusetts (1902, oil on canvas, 18 ? 27 ins/46 ? 68 cm) USD 3,750