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orn in Paris, Sophie Gengembre had an English mother and French father (an architect and art-lover) and two brothers. She showed a passion for drawing and painting from a young age but the family lived in the provinces (perhaps Brittany) from c.1830-44, where she was limited to her own initiative.
Then, at the age of twenty, she was able to join the Paris studio of Baron Charles de Steuben, with whom she studied for a year. Continuing to develop herself, she focussed on portraiture.
When political turmoil overtook Paris in 1848 (the "year of revolutions""), the family removed to the USA, settling in Cincinnati, Ohio.
There was a fledgling art world in this city in which the young artist participated, making portraits and working for lithographer Charles A Jewett.
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Her brother Henry was also involved in this enterprise, as was an English artist, Walter Anderson, whom she married. Shortly thereafter the Gengembre family and the Andersons moved to Manchester, Pennsylvania. In 1852, So