Anna Elizabeth Klumpke

Anna Elizabeth Klumpke was born in San Francisco in 1856. She showed artistic talent at a young age, and she enrolled at the Académie Julian in Paris when she was 15, debuting at the Paris Salon the following year. At 33, one of her paintings won a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle, and she painted the American suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. In 1889, Klumpke met the painter Rosa Bonheur, with whom she forged a lasting personal and professional partnership.