Alma Hirsig Bliss

{{short description|American miniature painter}}

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Alma Hirsig Bliss (1875 – {{c.}} 1959) was an American miniature painter. Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum{{cite web |title=Alma Hirsig Bliss {{!}} Smithsonian American Art Museum |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/alma-hirsig-bliss-451 |website=americanart.si.edu}} and the Brooklyn Museum.{{cite web |title=Brooklyn Museum |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/31498 |website=www.brooklynmuseum.org}}

Bliss studied with Willard Metcalf, Robert Reid, and Volk and Theodora Thayer in New York and with René-Xavier Prinet, Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois, and Gabrielle Debillemont-Chardon,{{cite book |last=Petteys |first=Chris |title=Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900 |publisher=G.K. Hall & Co. |location=Boston |year=1985 |page=74}} the President of the Société des Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs and of the Société des Miniaturistes et des Arts Precieux, in Paris.

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