Marie Danforth Page

These continued until 1889, when she began five years of lessons at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, under the tutelage of Frank Weston Benson and Edmund Charles Tarbell.

[2] In 1903 she traveled to Europe, where she copied paintings of Diego Velázquez while in Spain; on her return she took lessons at Harvard University in color theory with Denman Ross.

[4] In 1896 she married Dr. Calvin G. Page,[2] a research bacteriologist,[5] and settled with him at 128 Marlborough Street in Boston, where she had a studio on the top floor.

[5] Page soon began to receive commissions at home; some of these were simply for copies of works by people like Gilbert Stuart, but others were for original portraits.

[5] Among figures whom she painted were Mary Emma Woolley, the president of Mount Holyoke College; the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in rehearsal under Serge Koussevitsky; and six professors at Harvard, where her husband taught at the medical school from 1911 until 1925.