Sturtevant was born in Middletown, Rhode Island on October 13, 1863.
[1] She attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Académie Colarossi.
[2] Her teachers included Edmund C. Tarbell, Lucien Simon, and Jacques-Émile Blanche.
[3] She exhibited her work at the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Paris Salon.
[3][4] Sturtevant died in Newport, Rhode Island in 1946.