J. P. Dabney

Julia Parker Dabney (1850 – 1932) was a Portuguese-born American writer and poet.

Biography Julia Parker was the middle daughter of Mary Anne (Marianne) Dabney Parker and William Henry Dabney. Her father was the youngest son of American diplomat and wine merchant John Bass Dabney and his wife Roxa. A member of one of the first Boston families to settle in the Azores as whaling and wine merchants and American diplomats, Julia was a descendant of Robert and Elizabeth D'Aubingé, French Huguenots who were early settlers in America in the early eighteenth century.

Julia grew up in Teneriffe, Canary Islands, where her father was U.S. consul between 1862 and 1882. She was educated at home and studied art with several Spanish painters. In 1868 she studied in Boston under William Morris Hunt and Helen M. Knowlton. She died in 1932.