Susanna Paine, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American artist
Date of Birth: 09-Jul-1792
Place of Birth: Rehoboth, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 01-Jan-1862
Profession: painter
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Susanna Paine
- Susanna Paine, also known as Susannah and Susan (June 9, 1792 – November 10, 1862), was an American portrait artist in New England in the 19th century.
- She published poetry, a Christmas hymn, a novel, and an autobiography entitled Roses and Thorns, or Recollections of an Artist. As a young girl, she was an excellent student, but needed to quit school at the age of 11 to care for her ill grandmother.
- At 15, she taught school and a year later joined an academy in Providence, Rhode Island, where she earned her way through school by making and selling needlework.
- She graduated with highest honors and established a school that she operated for years.
- Paine gave the profits to her family, and she helped support them throughout most of her life. She had a short marriage characterized by abuse and control.
- A child was born to the couple, but died 11 months later.
- Before the child's birth, Paine had left her husband and obtained a divorce.
- To support herself, she taught school for a period and then began to work as a portraitist.
- She traveled throughout Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Maine accepting commissions for portraits of individuals or families from 1826 through 1862.
- Because she lived a mobile lifestyle, she had few long-lasting relationships.
- The closest personal relationship of her life was with her mother.
- She raised a girl, however, for three years and taught her how to paint.
- Once she became a professional portraitist she had periods of financial security, but that and her physical health vacillated over the course of her career.
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