Marguerite Elizabeth Abbott

Margaret '"Marguerite" Elizabeth Abbott' was an American painter, and educator. She taught art courses in Los Angeles, California from 1888 until c. 1930.

Life and career

Margaret "Marguerite" Elizabeth Abbott was born on 1870, in San Francisco, California. She studied under Warren Eliphalet Rollins, and Chris Jorgensen in San Francisco.
Abbott was known for her watercolors, and primarily painted portraits and landscapes. In 1888, she had established an art studio in Los Angeles, where she taught portrait painting until 1930. In 1904, her summer art classes were held at the Blanchard Building in Ocean Park in Santa Monica. She never married.
Abbott died on February 17, 1953, in Los Angeles, California. She was posthumously included in the survey exhibition, Southern California Artists, 1890–1940 at the Laguna Beach Museum of Art in Laguna Beach, California.