~PARA vPAR@ ` nTEXT ` `Sartain, Emily1841╨1927artist and educatorBorn in Philadelphia on March 17, 1841, Emily Sartain was the daughter of John Sartain, a well known artist, engraver, and publisher. She began the study of art under her father, who taught her the mezzotint technique of which he was then the outstanding exponent and of which she was reputedly the only woman practitioner. From 1864 to 1870 she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and for the next four years she worked in the Paris studio of Evariste Luminais. Two winters spent copying paintings in Spanish and Italian galleries rounded out her training. In 1875 the Paris Salon accepted her portrait of Mlle. Del Sarte and a genre painting, ╥La PiÅce de Conviction╙; the latter, under the title ╥The Reproof,╙ was awarded a medal at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. During 1881╨1883 she was art editor of the Philadelphia magazine Our Continent. In 1881 and again in 1883 she won the Mary Smith Prize for best picture by a woman at the annual Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts exhibit. In 1886 she became principal of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (founded by Sarah Peter in 1848). She raised the standard of instruction at the school to the level of French academic training, working in the belief that commercial art was to be judged by the same aesthetic principles as fine art. In 1893 she served as chairman of the Pennsylvania women╒s art committee charged with decorating the women╒s rooms of the Pennsylvania Building at the World╒s Columbian Exposition in Chicago; she also sat on the jury of award for the exposition╒s art exhibit and competition. She was the U.S. delegate to international congresses on commercial art instruction in Paris in 1900 and in Berne in 1904. Aside from professional duties she was a founder of the New Century Club in Philadelphia in 1877 and of the Plastic Club for women artists, of which she was president in 1899╨1903 and 1904╨1905. She retired as principal of the School of Design for Women in 1920 and lived thereafter in California and Europe. She died in Philadelphia on June 17, 1927. ╓styl `
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