Sopha Orene Bacon Bennett: A Painter of Quiet Landscapes and Intimate Portraits Sopha Orene Bacon Bennett (1864-1950) remains a quietly significant figure in the late 19th and early 20th century art world, often overshadowed by her more famous contemporaries but possessing a distinctive voice within the broader currents of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Born in Auburn, New York, to a family deeply rooted in the American West—her father was a prominent lawyer and her mother a descendant of colonial settlers—Bennett’s early life instilled in her a profound appreciation for the natural w…