caption death_date death_place birth_place nationality birth_date known_for notable_works image article_title education name
naudin 1880 , moore college of art and design , philadelphia studios , '' emily sartain , '' ca 17 june 1927 philadelphia , pennsylvania philadelphia , pennsylvania american 17 march 1841 mezzotint engraving , painting , art educator '' the reproof '' naudin moore college of art and design , philadelphia.jpg studios , emily sartain , ca 1880 , emily sartain
 pennsylvania vital luminais academy of the fine arts carlo raimondi Évariste emily sartain
emily sartain

emily sartain -lrb- march 17 , 1841 -- june 17 , 1927 -rrb- was an american painter and engraver .
she was the first woman in europe and the united states to practice the art of mezzotint engraving , and the only woman to win a gold medal at the 1876 world fair in philadelphia .
sartain became a nationally recognized art educator and was the director of the philadelphia school of design for women from 1866 to 1919 or 1920 .
her father , john sartain , and three of her brothers , william , henry and samuel were artists .
before she entered the pennsylvania academy of the fine arts and studied abroad , her father took her on a grand tour of europe .
she helped found the new century club for working and professional women , and the professional women 's art clubs , the plastic club and the three arts club .
