Known as "Lizzie," Elizabeth Boott Duveneck (1846-1888) had a promising career cut short by her early death.  She was a serious painter intent on a professional career and studied throughout Europe and also in the United States with William Morris Hunt.  She was born to a prominent, cultured Boston family and became so refined that Henry James described her as "the infinitely civilized and sympathetic, the markedly produced Lizzie."

Her travels included studies in Munich and Italy with Frank Duveneck and studies at the Academy Julian in Paris.

After a successful solo exhibition in Boston, she exhibited at the Chase Gallery, the National Academy of Design, and in 1884 at the Associated Artists in New York City. In 1886 she married the artist Frank Duveneck, to whom she had been engaged since 1881, while living in Paris. Tragically, she died of pneumonia in 1888 and was laid to rest near her childhood home in Italy.

Sources include:

Erica E. Hirshler, A Studio of Her Own

Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein, American Women Artists