Drinker, Ernesta (1852–1939)
Drinker, Ernesta (1852–1939)
American artist's model. Name variations: Etta Beaux. Born Aimeé Ernesta Beaux, Oct 26, 1852, in New York, NY; dau. of Jean Adolphe Beaux (silk manufacturer) and Cecilia Kent (Leavitt) Beaux; sister of Cecilia Beaux (artist); m. Henry Sturgis Drinker (brother of Catherine Ann Drinker and president of Lehigh University), 1879; children: 6, including Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973, writer).
Was the subject of many of her sister's paintings.
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