Katharine Carl
Katharine Augusta Carl (1865–1938) (sometimes spelled Katherine Carl) was an American painter and author who spent nine months in China in 1903 painting a portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi for the St. Louis Exposition.
On her return to America, she published a book about her experience, titled With the Empress Dowager. She was born in 1865 in New Orleans, Louisiana and died in 1938 in New York City.
Read more about Katharine Carl: Journeys To China, With The Empress Dowager, Works
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