Flora Whitney

Name: Flora Whitney
Brand: ByMuseum
SKU: BM5316
Price: 259.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Original price was: $518.00.Current price is: $259.00.

Artist: Cecilia Beaux

A close, sensitively observed portrait by Cecilia Beaux, Flora Whitney pairs Impressionist light with academic precision, ideal for a room that wants quiet character over decoration.

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Painted by hand to order on premium canvas. Frames are chosen separately on the product page.

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SKU: BM5316 Category: Cecilia Beaux

Flora Whitney by Cecilia Beaux - hand-painted oil reproduction

Description

Description

Cecilia Beaux built a career on portraits that flattered without flattening character, society women and prominent families rendered with a candour that set her apart from more decorative contemporaries. Flora Whitney belongs to that body of work, but where many of the Beaux portraits favour formal distance, this canvas draws the viewer close, trading grandeur for intimacy and letting a single face carry the composition.

About Flora Whitney

The painting isolates its sitter against a spare, softly modulated ground, so nothing competes with her expression and bearing. Costume and posture are handled with the same attentive economy: enough detail to place her socially, never so much that it distracts from the psychological presence Beaux was after. The brushwork moves with a fluid confidence learned in part from Impressionist practice, yet it never loosens into pure atmosphere; every stroke still serves the likeness.

Light falls across the face and fabric in soft, luminous passages, and the tonal range is unusually sophisticated for a portrait of its period, warm where it needs to communicate personality, cooler and more restrained in the shadowed planes. A discerning eye will look for exactly this: the way pigment is layered rather than blended flat, the visible pull of the brush through wet paint, the subtle shifts in temperature that give skin and cloth their sense of weight. Painted at a point when Beaux had fully absorbed academic training into a personal, more relaxed idiom, the work sits at the meeting point of two traditions rather than fully inside either.

The hand-painted reproduction

ByMuseum artists recreate this canvas as a hand-painted oil painting reproduction, working in oil on artist-grade canvas to match the original palette stroke by stroke rather than reproducing it as a flat image. The result is a museum quality reproduction with genuine surface texture, raised paint where the original brush pressed harder, a matte softness where it glided, so the object on the wall behaves like a painting rather than a picture of one. Hung in a study, a reading room, or a quieter corner of a living room away from direct glare, the portrait rewards the kind of steady, changing light that lets its tonal shifts read differently morning and evening, lending the room a settled, contemplative mood rather than a decorative one.

Hand-painted in oil on canvas by a trained artist
Available in multiple sizes to suit the wall
Gallery-ready presentation on arrival
Certificate of authenticity included
90 day returns with a full refund or free replacement, no restocking fee

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.

Empty walls flatten a room. A classical artwork restores structure and visual hierarchy. One painting defines the space, anchors furniture, and establishes identity.

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Real brushwork, layered oil paint, and durable pigments on museum-quality canvas.

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Unframed — Rolled in Tube

Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.

Framed — Ready to Hang

Select a handcrafted frame and we’ll deliver your painting fully assembled, protected, and ready to hang.

For safe shipping, framing is available up to a maximum size. Larger sizes will automatically disable the frame option.

Stretched Canvas

Choose “Stretched” to receive your canvas mounted on wooden stretcher bars — perfect if you’ll frame it later or display it as-is.

Gallery Wrap

Gallery Wrap is a deeper, 1.5" style stretcher. The canvas wraps around the sides and is stapled on the back for a clean, modern, frameless look.

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Unframed canvases are protected with a film, carefully rolled, and secured inside a rigid shipping tube.

Stretched, Gallery Wrapped, and Framed paintings are wrapped, cushioned with foam protection, and boxed for safe transit.

Flora Whitney

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