Lucy May Stanton

Lucy May Stanton was an American painter. She made landscapes, still lifes, and portraits, but Stanton is best known for the portrait miniatures she painted. Her works are in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where SelfPortrait in the Garden and Miss Jule are part of the museums permanent collection.

Stanton was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the first of two daughters of William Lewis Stanton and Frances Louisa Cleveland Megee Stanton. William had a wholesale business selling food, some of which came from the Stanton and Megee farms machinery lumber and imported pottery from Europe. The family lived in the fashionable West End district of Atlanta on Gordon Street in a Greek Revival house. A year after Lucy May Stanton was born, her sister Willie Marion Stanton was born. The familys summers were often spent in the mountains of North Georgia at Lucys grandparents farms. The Stantons spent many winters in the Pontalba Buildings of New Orleans, where William managed the import of Caribbean sugar, molasses, and rice. Lucy May Stanton was given a set of oil paints and began to learn to paint when she was seven years old. Mme Sally Seago, a French artist in New Orleans, gave Stanton lessons in New Orleans.

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