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Irene E. Parmelee, her surname also spelled Parmely (1847 – 1934), was an American painter and portrait artist.




Early life


Irene E. Parmelee born in Guilford, Connecticut. She was the daughter of Mary and Horton L. Parmelee, a farmer. Her older siblings were Emily, Charles, Mary, and Jane.




Education


Parmelee studied under Henry Bryant of Hartford beginning in 1872 and the following year with Nathaniel Jocelyn in New Haven. She studied for a year at the Yale Art School, which had just begun admitting women, under Robert Walter Weir. Still stating to others that she was still a student, she opened a studio in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1875.
Parmelee later traveled to Paris and attended the Académie Julian from 1881 to 1884 where she studied with Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, Pierre Auguste Cot, and Jules Joseph Lefebvre.




Career


She was a career portrait artist and operated a studio in Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1875 to 1929. Parlee painted the portrait of Marcus Perrin Knowlton, Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, made after a photogravure, in 1912. It hung in the court house in Springfield following a formal presentation ceremony at the fourth annual Massachusetts Bar Association meeting in December of that year. She was paid $1,125 (equivalent to $34,221 in 2023) for the framed painting.
Parmelee made a portrait of Samuel Bowles, III, who was an editor of the Republican and a City Library Association member for 37 years and was on the board of directors for 24 years. His wife donated the portrait to the Springfield Library, which was hung next to a portrait of his father, Samuel Bowles, II.




Death


She died on August 29, 1934, in Los Angeles, California.




Works


A partial list of her paintings are:

Amherst College, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts
Chester W. Chapin (b. 1798), oil, copy after Joseph Oriel Eaton
George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts
Horace Smith, oil, 1881
Horatio N. Case, oil, 1890
Charles M. Merriam, oil, 1890
Henry S. Lee, oil, 1891
James M. Thompson, oil, 1895
Ephraim Bond, oil, 1896
Samuel Bowles, oil, 1896
Dr. Josiah Gilbert Holland, oil, 1896
James Kirkham, oil, 1896
Everett Hosmer Barney, oil, 1903
John Olmsted, oil, 1903
Julius Appleton, oil, 1907
Chester Chapin, oil
Mrs. Timothy M. Walker, oil
Maine State Museum, Augusta
Portrait of George Evans, oil, 1901
Massachusetts Historical Society
Mrs. Edward Bates (Lucy Douglas Fowler) 1830-1916
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts
Portrait of James Philip Gray, oil
Unitarian Church, Boston, Massachusetts
John Wille, oil, 1886
Yale University, School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
Henry Bronson (1804-1893), oil on canvas, 1881




References






Further reading


Peter Hastings Falk, ed. (1999). Who Was Who in American Art. 400 years of artists in America. Second edition. Madison, Connecticut: Sound View Press.
Dean Flower, Francis Murphy (1976). American Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings (A Catalogue to 1923). p. 119.
Daniel Trowbridge Mallett (1935). Index of Artists: International-Biographical. p. 1130.
Maria Naylor (1973). Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design. p. 1075.
Chris Petteys (1985). Dictionary of Women Artists. An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co.
Theodore Stebbins, G Gorokhoff (1982). American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist. p. 213.




External links


Portrait of Chester W. Chapin by I.E. Parmelee

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