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number of her works that had been misattributed to Chase. At the time, her portrait of her mentor was on exhibit and ranked among the important self-portraits in which painters "capture the essence of themselves." Pisano observed that the obliteration of her signatures "in such a wanton way is the ultimate crime that could be perpetrated against an artist."
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In the 1920s, Lang's family sold her possessions and artworks. On a few of her paintings, including her portrait of Chase now at the
Metropolitan Museum, her signature was cut away or erased and replaced with fraudulent Chase signatures. In the 1970s, the art historian Ronald G. Pisano identified a
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Lang, although she was bereft after Chase's death in 1916 (she was his longtime mistress, according to her descendants), continued to paint overseas. In 1918, after a yearlong trip through Puerto Rico, Cuba and the
Dominican Republic, Lang returned to New York with plans to volunteer at battlefield
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Annie Lang was born in
Philadelphia on September 8, 1885, the second eldest of seven children of the Philadelphia attorney James Traquair Lang (1858–1920) and Winona Barker Sewell Lang (1862–1928). Among her paternal ancestors were the stone carver James Traquair (1756–1811), who worked with the
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ranked her acquisitions of Chase's paintings as "in all probability the finest private collection of his works in this country" and described her pictures as "very direct and forceful, painted in a virile manner." She worked alongside Chase at his summer schools in
Florence (1910, 1911), Bruges
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