Hattie Elizabeth Burdette

Burdette was born and raised in Washington, D.C., and educated in the local schools before studying art with Harold MacDonald at the Norwood Institute.

She served as vice-president from 1926 to 1929 and exhibited with the society for nearly every year between 1892 and 1932, and received honorable mention in 1922.

[4] Burdette was a founding member of the Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers Society of Washington, of which organization she served as president in 1933 and 1934.

A portrait of Mabel Boardman, owned by the American Red Cross, appeared in an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in 1950.

Burdette lived her whole life in Washington, D.C. and continued painting until about three years before her death in 1955.

Burdette's portrait of John Langdon, currently in the collection of the United States Capitol
Marquise de Pelleport, watercolor on ivory, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE