Jeannette Scott

Jeannette Scott (1864–1937) was a Canadian-born American painter. She became the head of the painting department at Syracuse University.

Biography Scott was born in 1864 in Kincardine, Canada West. Upon the death of her father, when she was twenty-one, she moved to the United States where she studied at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, there her professors included Emily Sartain. She also studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Scott also exhibited her art the Boston Art Club and the National Academy of Design in New York. Scott was a member of the American Federation of Arts. She also worked with the Inter-American Commission of Women.

In 1895, Scott became a professor of painting in the College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University. In 1902 she became head of the painting department, teaching there until 1927, when she retired.

Scott died in 1937 in Skaneateles, New York.

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