John Weir Perry

Edith Weir Perry (August 17, 1875 – February 24, 1955) was an American miniature painter and author. Edith Dean Weir was born on August 17, 1875 in New Haven, Connecticut, the second child of painter John Ferguson Weir and Mary French Weir. She studied painting under her father, the first dean of Yale Art School, and was one of the earliest female students at the school, earning her certificate in 1898 after five years of study. Weir exhibited her work in America, including at the Pan-Ameri…