Ellen Day Hale

Who was Ellen Day Hale?

Ellen Day Hale was an American Impressionist painter and printmaker from Boston. She studied art in Paris and during her adult life lived in Paris, London and Boston. She exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Royal Academy of Arts. Hale wrote the book History of Art: A Study of the Lives of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, and Albrecht Dürer.

Her father was author and orator Edward Everett Hale, her brother was Philip Leslie Hale and she was related to author Harriet Beecher Stowe, educator Catherine Beecher, and Revolutionary War soldier Nathan Hale.