History of Littleton, (Middlesex County) Massachusetts United States of America

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Helen Mary Knowlton, artist and writer, was born at Littleton, Mass., Aug. 16, 1832; daughter of John Stocker Coffin and Anna Wheeler (Hartwell) KnowIton, and grand-daughter of Daniel and Mary (Stocker) Knowlton, of Hopkinton, N.H., and of Deacon John and Anna (Wheeler) Hartwell, of Littleton, Mass. She studied art in Boston, Mass., under William Morris Hunt, and later with Frank Duveneck. In 1867 she opened a studio in Boston. She exhibited charcoal-sketches, with landscapes and portraits in oil, in Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago and London, and for thirty years taught classes in Boston and at her home in Needham, Mass. She wrote for her father's paper, and with her sisters edited and published it for several years after his death. She was art-critic on the staff of the Boston Post, 1879-92, and a frequent contributor to the Boston Transcript. She edited Talks on Art (2 vols., 1879), by William M. Hunt, which she prepared from notes taken while under his instruction; and is the author of: Hints for Pupils in Drawing and Painting (1879), with illustrations from drawings by William M. Hunt. She is also the author of: The Art-Life of William Morris Hunt (1899), and a journal of artistic and psychic experience, entitled, The Eternal Years.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Littleton, (Middlesex County) Massachusetts

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