biographie de Eliza ABRAMSE (1776-1865)

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Amateur artist

Studied: Archibald Robertson

Exhibited: American Academy, NYC

Comments: Several of her pen-and-ink sketches of Shakespearean subjects have been preserved. She married Archibald Robertson, the Scottish-American artist (see entry), in NYC in December 1794. The NYHS has a portrait of her (miniature on ivory) painted by her husband in 1794.

Sources: G&W; Stillwell, Archibald Robertson, Miniaturist," 2, 20, 23, 25. See also NYHS Catalogue (1974), cat. no. 1719."