Originally Posted by matfx Sophie Anderson British 1823 - 1903 Sophie Anderson was a genre, landscape and portrait painter. She was born in Paris, where she studied under Steuben.Her father being French, her early years were spent in France, but with the outbreak of the 1848 Revolution, she and her family left for America. There she established herself as a successful portrait painter and married an English artist, Walter Anderson. In 1854 they came to England, and in 1855 she began to exhibit genre ...