births
May 1, 1855
Cecilia Beaux, American painter and academic (died 1942)
Cecilia Beaux
Eliza Cecilia Beaux was an American artist and the first woman to teach art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Known for her elegant and sensitive portraits of friends, relatives, and Gilded Age patrons, Beaux painted many famous subjects including First Lady Edith Roosevelt, Admiral Sir David Beatty and Georges Clemenceau.
May 1
May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 244 days remain until the end of the year.