James Carroll Beckwith artwork • painting • for sale Portrait of a young woman, ca 1875 probably the younge Émilie-Louise Delabigne (Valtesse de la Bigne).

James Carroll Beckwith was an American impressionist painter working in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, specializing in landscape, portraiture and genre paintings. After studying at the Chicago Academy of Design and the National Academy of Design in New York, he lived in Europe from 1873 to 1878, living mainly in Paris. There, together with John Singer Sargent, he was apprenticed to Emile Carolus Duran, one of the most esteemed portrait painters of French high society at the time. After returning to New York in 1878, where he would teach for eighteen years at the Arts Students League, he became increasingly known for his portraits of upper-class women, writers and composers. He also made landscapes and murals. He would remain faithful throughout his life to the ideals of French academic painting and was fiercely opposed to 'the new art' that emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century.