Lucy Dora Wheeler (1856-1940)

Biography
As a young lady in New York, Wheeler received private instruction from artist William Merritt Chase, from 1879 to 1881. She and her friends Rosina and Lydia Emmet were Chase's first pupils and he remained her mentor and close friend throughout his life, an inspiring teacher "not only giving exhaustively of his stored knowledge of how to do things, but fostering as well the will to do it."

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