William Sergeant Kendall

William Sergeant Kendall studied under Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He went on to work as a painting instructor for several decades, eventually serving at the dean of fine arts at Yale University from 1913 to 1922. Many of Kendall’s paintings portray intimate family relationships between mothers and daughters, and he frequently used his wife, Margaret, and daughters Elisabeth, Beatrice, and Alison as models.