Ida Waugh Art for Sale at Auction

Painter, Illustrator, b. 1846 - d. 1919

Ida Waugh (October 24, 1846 – January 25, 1919) was an American illustrator of children's literature who often collaborated with her lifelong companion, Amy Ella Blanchard.

Ida Waugh was born in Philadelphia on October 24, 1846, the daughter of painter Samuel B. Waugh and his first wife, Sarah Lendenhall, therefore she was half-sister of painter Frederick Judd Waugh. Her step-mother was Mary Eliza Young Waugh, a miniaturist.[1][2]

She attended Académie Julian and Académie Delécluse in Paris.[3] In 1868 she attended the first "Ladies Life Class" at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; in the same class there were Emily Sartain and Catherine Ann Drinker