About Eleanor Cunningham Bannister
Lived 1858 – 1939 (aged 80–81). Eleanor Cunningham Bannister was an American painter.
Eleanor Cunningham Bannister ( – ) was an American portrait painter.
Eleanor Cunningham Bannister was born on in Manhattan, the daughter of engraver James Bannister and Ellen Hogg. Her brother was the architect William Bannister. She was educated at Public School 15 and the Packer Collegiate Institute.
She studied art at the Adelphi Academy under painter John Barnard Whittaker. Bannister began exhibiting with the Brooklyn Art Association and the Brooklyn Art Club in the 1880s. She became a portrait painter and her subjects included a number of notable Brooklyn residents.
Eleanor Cunningham Bannister died on 20 January 1939 in Brooklyn.
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American portrait painter (1858–1939)
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