Known for Painting | Name Florence MacKubin | |
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Born May 19, 1857 ( 1857-05-19 ) Florence, Italy Resting place St. Anne's Cemetery, Annapolis, Maryland
Coordinates: 38°58′54.69″N 76°29′49.73″W / 38.9818583°N 76.4971472°W / 38.9818583; -76.4971472 Nationality American, born in Italy Died February 2, 1918, Balti, Maryland, United States | ||
Florence MacKubin (or Mackubin) (May 19, 1857 in Florence – February 2, 1918 in Baltimore) was an American portrait painter in miniature, pastel, and oil colors. She painted portraits of prominent people in the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as several famous copies of portraits, and exhibited at the Paris Salon, the London Academy, and the National Academy, New York.
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Early life
Florence MacKubin was born in 1857 in Florence, Italy, while her parents, Charles Nicholas and Ellen Marietta (Fay) MacKubin, were spending a year abroad. Her father died in 1863, after which her mother returned to Europe with the children.
MacKubin made a portrait of her grandfather, George Mackubin, who had been the Treasurer of the Western Shore, for the State of Maryland.
Education
MacKubin studied drawing in Florence, Italy. She then studied at Les Ruches, a Protestant school at Fontainbleau under M. Lainé. In Munich she studied under Professor Herterich. She studied under Louis Deschamps in oil and Julius Rolshoven in pastel, and Mlle. Jeanne Devina in miniature painting in Paris.
Career
The Board of Public Works of Maryland appointed her to make copies of portraits of George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore and Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore. For the Board she also painted a copy of Warwick Castle's famous Van Dyke portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria, for whom Maryland is named.
MacKubin made paintings of society women in England and in the United States cities of Boston, New York, Baltimore, Washington, and St. Louis. In 12 years she received commissions for 360 miniature portraits. The people whose portraits she painted include Joel Chandler Harris, Basil Gildersleeve, Mrs. Charles J. Bonaparte, Justice Horace Gray, Senator George F. Hoar, and Mrs. Thomas F. Bayard.
She began exhibiting her works and winning awards in the United States, London and Paris beginning in 1893. Her life-sized portrait of Cardinal Gibbons was exhibited in 1903 in Baltimore and in 1904 at the St. Louis Exposition. In 1897 she won the bronze medal and diploma at the Tennessee Exposition. She exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts and made portraits of the Marchioness of Bath, the Countess of Warwick and others in England.
She was vice president of the Baltimore Watercolor Club.
MacKubin resided in Baltimore for most of her life and kept a studio and summer home in St. Andrews, New Brunswick.
Personal life
MacKubin was a member of the Maryland Society of the Colonial Dames of America.
She died February 2, 1918. Richard H. Spencer of the Maryland Historical Society said of her: