Jane de Glehn
Jane de Glehn
'A Spanish Gipsy'
1913
Coloured Crayons
16 1/2 x 12 inches
19 x 14 3/4 inches in the frame
Signed Lower Right
ID: DH4968
Jane Emmet de Glehn (1873-1961) was an American portrait and figure painter and a member of the accomplished Emmet family of women artists. Jane is also the aunt of the American playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood. She studied at the Art Students League in New York and exhibited widely, including at the Pennsylvania Academy, the Düsseldorf Academy, and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. In 1904, she married British painter Wilfrid de Glehn, forming a creative partnership that placed her within an international circle of artists.
Jane and her husband traveled extensively with John Singer Sargent, who painted the couple during their time working in Italy and Greece in the early 20th century. Between World War I and World War II, she divided her time between New England and New York, where she maintained a studio. She died in Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, England, in 1961, leaving a lasting legacy as part of a multigenerational lineage of influential women artists.
