Katherine Arthur Behenna

[2] Behenna painted miniature portraits on ivory,[8] often of American socialites of the Gilded Age for art collector Peter Marié, including Antoinette Polk, Baroness de Charette Anna Hall Roosevelt, and Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy.

[2] In 1915, Behenna was organizing chair of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire, and created chapters in New York and Baltimore, to prepare and coordinate women's relief efforts during World War I.

[14] In 1907 she was in Ottawa to show her miniatures and paint Lady Evelyn Grey, daughter of the Governor General,[15] when she disappeared, prompting a police investigation.

[16][17] She explained later that she had decided to take a train to Virginia, because "I went to Ottawa an optimist and returned a pessimist," elaborating that "I was chilled to the soul by the atmosphere of petty malice, superficiality, lack of courtesy and active hostility in which I found myself.

[19] She wrote a short book of poems, which she claimed to have received "through auditory control" from the spirit realm, Mystic Songs of Fire and Flame (1921).

[17][23] Katherine Behenna died from a cerebral haemorrhage in 1926[24][25] after she was found unconscious in her Chelsea studio, apparently after visiting China, and using toxic products to dye her hair.