The Life and Art of Harriet Blackstone Born in 1864 in New Hartford, United States, Harriet Blackstone was an American figure and portrait painter. Her early life included working as a book editor and teaching drama and elocution at Galesburg High School in Illinois. Her artistic journey led her to the Pratt Institute in New York, where she studied under William Merritt Chase, and later to the Académie Julian in Paris, where she worked…