Elizabeth Eaton Burton
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Elizabeth Eaton Burton | |
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| Born | 1869 Paris, France |
| Died | 1937 (aged 67–68) Los Angeles, California |
| Known for | design |
| Movement | Arts and Crafts |
| Spouse | William W. "Billy" Burton |
Elizabeth Eaton Burton (1869–1937) was an American artist and designer whose work typified the Arts and Crafts style in southern California.[1]
Elizabeth was born in Paris, France, in 1869, to Charles Frederick Eaton and Helen Justice Mitchell. Her father was an artist and designer who worked in such media as metal, glass, and leather. He taught her drawing and the rudiments of other media, which turned out to be almost the only art training she ever received. She attended boarding school in England and Germany in 1885–86.[2] However, both Elizabeth and her mother suffered from health issues, so the family moved first to Nice and then, when Elizabeth was around 17, emigrated to the west coast of the United States, settling down near Santa Barbara, California.[3][2]
Charles Eaton developed into a landscape architect, and the house he built for his family, Riso Rivo, in then-semi-rural Montecito featured a lotus pond with a Japanese teahouse.[4] In an extensive scrapbook that Elizabeth kept (published in 2011),[5] she paints a vivid picture of life in southern California, although she initially found the surroundings "in some ways primitive" compared to her family's former cosmopolitan life.[6]
In 1893, Burton married William W. "Billy" Burton, who was involved in real estate. They had a son (Phillip) and a daughter (Helen).
