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About Mabel Rose Welch
- Mabel Rose Welch (March 26, 1871 – January 1, 1959) was an American painter of portrait miniatures. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Welch was the daughter of Philip Henry and Margaret Welles (Hamilton) Welch.
- She studied under Kenyon Cox and Robert Reid at the Art Students League of New York.
- She moved to Paris for further study, showing her work at the Paris Salon.
- She returned to the United States and was active in New York City for some while.
- Welch died in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, and is buried there in the Woodland Dell Cemetery.
- During her career she served as the secretary of the American Society of Miniature Painters, from whom she was once the recipient of the Levantia White Boardman Memorial Medal; she was also a member of the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters, the Woman's Art Club, and the Art Workers' Club.
- Among her other awards were a silver medal from the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in 1915; the Medal of Honor of the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters in 1920; a medal from the Brooklyn Society of Miniature Painters in 1933; and awards from the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors (the Lindsey Morris Sterling Prize for Miniatures) and the California Society of Miniature Painters in 1937.
- A portrait by Welch of Rosina Cox Boardman, in watercolor on ivory and dating to around 1940, is currently owned by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns two miniature portraits in the same medium, a Portrait of a Lady from the first half of the 1910s and a portrait of Mrs.
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- Keith Evans from around 1911.
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