Aline Subit
- BORN
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1819
Geneva, Switzerland
- DIED
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September 5, 1896
Saint Louis, Missouri
Aline Subit was born in 1819 in Geneva, Switzerland. She immigrated to the United States in 1849 with her husband, Louis Subit, and settled in St. Louis, where she taught drawing and French.
Subit gained recognition as an artist in the 1850s when she began painting portraits of well-known St. Louis citizens and their families, often featuring children. In particular, she was known for tinting, a process of applying watercolor or oil paint to black and white photographs. Subit’s photograph tints were exhibited in the Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair, St. Louis, in 1864, and in the St. Louis Exposition of 1869.
Aline Subit continued to paint until the late 1880s, and died on September 5, 1896. She is buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.
Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair
Organized by Western Sanitary Commission
Organized by Western Sanitary Commission
St. Louis Exposition
Organized by St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association
Organized by St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association
St. Louis Women Artists 1818-1945 Exhibition
Organized by Missouri Historical Society
Organized by Missouri Historical Society
Award, St. Louis Exposition
Awards & Exhibitions 3
Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair
Organized by Western Sanitary Commission
Organized by Western Sanitary Commission
St. Louis Exposition
Organized by St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association
Organized by St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Association
St. Louis Women Artists 1818-1945 Exhibition
Organized by Missouri Historical Society
Organized by Missouri Historical Society
Award, St. Louis Exposition
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References
Artist clippings file is available at:
"Aline Subit: Artist File.” St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, Missouri.
Bibliography
Select Sources
"Aline Subit," Find A Grave, accessed December 2, 2020, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10436827/aline-subit.
Core Reference Sources
St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis Art History Project: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Artists (St. Louis: St. Louis Public Library, 1989).
askART (database), askART, https://www.askart.com/.
Image Credits
Artwork
Aline Subit, Charles Louis Bernays, 1880.
Oil on canvas, 36 5/16 x 29 1/2 in.
Missouri Historical Society, 1942.33.1.
Aline Subit, William and Jane Mafitt, 1873.
Oil on canvas, 43 9/16 x 34 9/16 in.
Missouri Historical Society, 1962.203.1.
Contributors
John Knuteson, St. Louis Public Library
Artist Record Published
Published on September 20, 2021
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References
Artist clippings file is available at:
"Aline Subit: Artist File.” St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, Missouri.
Bibliography
Select Sources
"Aline Subit," Find A Grave, accessed December 2, 2020, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10436827/aline-subit.
Core Reference Sources
St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis Art History Project: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Artists (St. Louis: St. Louis Public Library, 1989).
askART (database), askART, https://www.askart.com/.
Contributors
John Knuteson, St. Louis Public Library
Artist Record Published
Published on September 20, 2021
Updated on None
