Born: June 23, 1847, New York
(error in Who's Who in America states 1874)
Occupation: Artist
Daughter of William D. and Agnes A. (Dean) Abbatt, of English Quaker and French Huguenot ancestry; the father having been a New York merchant for many years. Her paternal grandfather came to America from Preston, England in the latter part of the eighteenth century settling in Pleasant Valley, Dutchess County, New York, where he became interested in manufacturers.
Abbatt showed talent as a child. Her artistic talents were inherited from both sides of her family, her maternal grandmother and several aunts having been amateur artists of ability.
Abbatt entered Cooper Union art school in 1873 and won a medal at the end of her first year. She then studied at National Academy of Design where her work was among those selected for exhibition. Abbatt then became the pupil of R. Swain Gifford and then James D. Smillie. Paints landscapes, coast scenes, flowers; oil and water colors. Member of American Water Color Society since 1880. Abbatt is notable as being one of the few women elected to the American Water Color Society.
She is notable as being a teacher, both in New York and other cities, while her work, especially that in landscape has been done largely in the vicinity of her summer home in Westchester County, New York, the Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts, on Long Island, and on the Massachusetts coast.
Address: Westchester, New York.
Burial: 1917
Green-Wood Cemetery
Brooklyn
Kings County (Brooklyn)
New York, USA
Plot: 3541
Sources:
Who's Who in America 1901 - 1902
A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men & Women
of the United States
Edited by John W. Leonard
A. N. Marquis & Company 1901
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume VIII
Edited by George Derby, James Terry White, et. al.
James T. White & Company 1808
Find A Grave Memorial - Agnes Dean Abbatt
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