Lillian B. Miller

Lillian B. Miller (1923–1997) was an American art historian who served as historian of American culture at the National Portrait Gallery. She was known for her work studying Charles Willson Peale and his family.

Biography Lillian Beresnack was born in 1923 in Boston to Lithuanian and Russian immigrant parents. She was the daughter of a Kosher butcher. As a child, her passion was literature. She attended Dorchester High School for Girls.

Beresnack then matriculated to Radcliffe College, becoming the first member of her family to attend college. She commuted from the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston and worked as a secretary.

Miller died on November 27, 1997, of a cerebral hemorrhage at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.