Elizabeth Coffin

Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin was an American artist, educator and philanthropist who is known for her paintings of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Welleducated and accomplished, she was one of the New Women of the 19th160century who explored opportunities not traditionally available to women and, contrary to the expectations for women in her day, she never married. She was the first person in the United States to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree and was the first woman admitted to the Hague Academy of Fine Arts. She opened a school in Nantucket that had been only open to men and offered several types of trade and crafts work courses to both genders.

Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin, nicknamed Lizzie, was born September 9, 1850 in Brooklyn, New York, into a Quaker family. She was the daughter of Andrew G. Coffin and Elizabeth M. Sherwood Coffin. Her father was born on Nantucket, Massachusetts and her mother in New York City.

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