Agnes Dean Abbatt

Agnes Dean Abbatt (June 23, 1847 – January 1, 1917) of New York was a painter of floral still lifes, landscapes, and coastal scenes.

Her family left England during the late 18th century and settled in Pleasant Valley, New York where her father was born.

[1] Abbatt decided that she didn't want to be a figure painter and left the academy after a year to study landscape painting.

[1] In addition to her career in art, Abbatt taught in Washington DC, Troy, NJ, and New Haven, CN.

Amongst her private pupils was the Cincinnati-born Claude Raguet Hirst who went on to be a still life painter and the only woman of her era to adopt the trompe-l'œil ("fool the eye") technique.

Hillside Landscape 1893
American Hillside Landscape