death_date birth_place nationality birth_date image article_title name
1923 london united kingdom 1854 helena arsène darmesteter - self-portrait . jpg héléna arsène darmesteter
 héléna arsène darmesteter
héléna arsène darmesteter

héléna arsène darmesteter , born héléna hartog -lrb- 1854 -- 1923 -rrb- was a british portrait painter .
darmesteter was born in london as the daughter of a french school teacher and the editor of the first jewish women 's periodical , marion hartog moss .
her parents ran a french boarding school where héléna learned to speak french .
she later studied painting in paris under gustave courtois , where she met her husband arsène darmesteter .
she became a successful portrait painter , exhibiting at the royal academy in 1891 and 1894 and at the exposition universelle in paris in 1900 .
she also showed works at the royal academy summer exhibitions in 1907 and 1908 .
she was a member of the société des artistes français and of the société nationale des beaux-arts .
philip , numa and marcus hartog were her brothers , and her husband 's brother james darmesteter married the poet a. mary f. robinson .
her self-portrait and a study of a woman before a mirror were included in the 1905 book `` women painters of the world '' .
