Perry (Lilla Cabot) is born in Boston.

Lilla Cabot Perry attends private schools and studies art at the Cowles Art School in Boston and France, but does not begin her career until well after her marriage to Thomas Sargeant Perry and giving birth to three children. A friend of Claude Monet, she is credited with introducing him to the U.S. She herself becomes a leading American Impressionist, known for landscapes and portraits of Boston Brahmin women. A resident of the Back Bay, Perry dies in Hancock, New Hampshire on February 28, 1933.