Elizabeth Fisher Washington

American (1871-1953)

Elizabeth Fisher Washington, the great-great grandniece of President George Washington, grew up in Pennsylvania and quickly showed an early interest in and inclination towards the arts. She studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art as well as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. At the latter institution, Washington studied under the famous painters and teachers Hugh Breckenridge and Fred Wagner. She also received the Academy’s Cresson Traveling Scholarship with which she studied in France. 

Washington was a member of the American Watercolor Society, Colonial Dames of America, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and exhibited her work at the Corcoran Gallery, the Pan-Pacific Exposition in 1915, National Academy of Design, Art Institute of Chicago, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, where he works won awards in 1913, 1917 and 1934.