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Annie W. S. Siebert
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Born
Anne Ware Sabine

1864 (1864)
Died November 7, 1947(1947-11-07) (aged 82–83)
Nationality American
Alma mater
Known for Painting
Spouse(s)
Wilbur Henry Siebert
(m. 1893)
Relatives Wallace Clement Sabine (brother)
Annie Ware Sabine Siebert - Thomas Corwin Mendenhall - NPG.67.138 - National Portrait Gallery (croppped)
Portrait of Thomas Corwin Mendenhall in the National Portrait Gallery by Annie W. S. Siebert

Annie Ware Sabine Siebert (1864-1947) was an American painter known for her miniature paintings.

Early life

Annie Sabine was born in 1864 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Hylas Sabine, a politician, and Annie Ware Sabine. She grew up in Marysville, Ohio and Richwood, Ohio. Her brother was Wallace Clement Sabine.

She studied at the Ohio State University, where she earned her first degree in 1884 and was the first woman to earn a master of arts degree in 1886. She went on study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was the first woman to earn an architecture degree in 1888. She also studied art at Harvard University.

Career

She was a member of the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters and exhibited her work at the 1933 Century of Progress World's Fair.

Some of her subjects included:

Personal life

On August 16, 1893, she married Wilbur Henry Siebert. She had a foster son, John F. Marshall, and a foster daughter, Mrs. Willie L. Howie.

She died on November 7, 1947 at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio of a coronary occlusion.

Legacy

In 1958 a women's residence hall at Ohio State University was named "Siebert Hall" in her honor.

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