Willie Betty Newman (1863-1935) was an American painter. Born on a plantation during the Civil War, she studied painting in Cincinnati, Ohio and Paris, France. She exhibited her paintings in Parisian salons in the 1890s. She established a studio in Nashville, Tennessee in the early 1900s, where she did portraits of prominent Tennesseans, including President James K. Polk.
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1863 Murfreesboro, Tennessee, U.S.
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1935 (aged 71) Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
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