Fanny Stevenson (she was Fanny Osbourne in 1876)
Fanny and her daughter Isobel were in the same classes at Académie Julian
at the same time. Fanny would later marry Robert Louis Srevenson and give up her art aspirations to keep him alive and later to build a plantation for him in Samoa. Isobel had a romance with an Irish painter Frank O'Meara and would later marry another painter Joe Strong (I just wrote a book about him)
This is Marie's painting of the art studio classes, but it's dated much later (1881) than the time her diaries say she was in the classes. The brunette and the blonde in the center could be construed to be Fanny and her daughter, but that's just fantasy on my part.
Marie's major competition in the classes for prizes was
Louise Catherine Breslau
who was there much longer and had several years more study time.
Marie at the time.
Fanny's youngest boy died in 1876, the year they were both there. Fanny would meet Louis that summer.
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