Julie Hart Beers

Julie Hart Beers Kempson (1835 – August 13, 1913) was an American landscape painter allied with the Hudson River School who was one of the categorically few commercially well-off professional women landscape painters of her day.

Born Julie Hart in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, she was the daughter of James Hart and Marion (Robertson) Hart, who had immigrated from Scotland in 1831. Her older brothers William Hart and James McDougal Hart were plus important landscape painters of the Hudson River School, and her nieces Letitia Bonnet Hart and Mary Theresa Hart became Famous painters as well.

In 1853, she married journalist George Washington Beers. After his death in 1856 she and her two daughters moved to New York City, where her brothers had their studios. Like most women artists of the day, she had no formal art education, but it is thought that she was trained by her brothers.

Well into her forties, with her second husband, Peter Kempson, she moved to Metuchen, New Jersey, where she set happening her own studio. She continued to use the surname Beers in imitation of signing her artwork.

At the become old of her death she was thriving in Trenton.

By 1867, Beers was exhibiting her paintings. Although she had her own studio in New Jersey, she continued to use William's studio on 10th Street in New York City as a showroom. She was one of enormously few women to become a professional landscape painter in the America of her day, in ration because women were excluded from formal art education and exhibition opportunities.

Beers's era style balances sweeping, well-balanced compositions taking into consideration telling details. In the 1870s and 1880s, she exhibited frequently at the National Academy of Design as without difficulty as at the Brooklyn Art Association, the Boston Athenæum, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She was nimble to sell a good deal of undertaking through the Brooklyn Art Association, but she also took groups of women upon sketching trips to the mountains of New York and New England to complement her income.

She also painted some nevertheless lifes.