Katharine Augusta Carl (1865 – 1938) was an American painter and author who spent 9 months in China in 1903 painting a portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi for the St. Louis Exposition.
On her return to America, she published a book about her experience, titled "With the Empress Dowager". She was born in 1865 in New Orleans, Louisiana and died in 1938 in Peking.
Katherine Carl was commissioned in the summer of 1903 to paint a portrait of the Empr...
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Katharine Augusta Carl (1865 – 1938) was an American painter and author who spent 9 months in China in 1903 painting a portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi for the St. Louis Exposition.
On her return to America, she published a book about her experience, titled "With the Empress Dowager". She was born in 1865 in New Orleans, Louisiana and died in 1938 in Peking.
Katherine Carl was commissioned in the summer of 1903 to paint a portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi for the Chinese exhibit at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition. She spent a total of nine months in China and painted four portraits of the Empress Dowager, later recording her memories as the only foreigner to live within the precincts of the Chinese imperial court in its last days in a book that was published in 1906.
Carl was the sister of Francis A. Carl, who worked for Sir Robert Hart at the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service. She apparently stayed at Hart's house at some point and was described by him as "very...
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