Cornelia Ellis Hildebrandt

Cornelia Ellis Hildebrandt studied at School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Académie Colarossi. Training under Virginia Richmond Reynolds is recorded. The field of work recorded is miniature. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Work by Cornelia Ellis Hildebrandt is recorded in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Cincinnati Art Museum.

• Name — Cornelia Ellis Hildebrandt • Born — 7 September 1876 • Birthplace — Eau Claire, Wisconsin • Died — 18 March 1962 • Place of death — New Canaan, Connecticut • Education — Académie Colarossi • Field — portrait miniatures • Spouse — Howard Logan Hildebrandt

Hildebrandt was born Cornelia Trumbull Ellis in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the daughter of Arthur Cadwalader and Eliza (Potter) Ellis. She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and then spent two years in Paris (1897–1898), where she studied at the Académie Colarossi and with Augustus Koopman and Virginia Richmond Reynolds. During her time there she met the American portrait artist Howard Logan Hildebrandt, who would later become her husband. His painting Miss C is thought to be portrait of her. On her return from Paris she had a studio in Chicago for a while, but after her marriage to Howard Hildebrandt on September 3, 1902, the couple settled in New York City. By 1912 she had established her career as a miniaturist with a solo exhibition of 15 of her paintings at the Worcester Art Museum. She was a member of the American Society of Miniature Painters and the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors at whose exhibitions she was awarded numerous medals. During the 1930s she was also a member of the Works Progress Administration. Cornelia and Howard Hildebrandt spent much of their later years at their summer home in New Canaan, Connecticut. Howard Hildebrandt died in 1958. Cornelia died in New Canaan four years later at the age of 85.