​BOOTT, Elizabeth, artist, b. in Cambridge, Mass. She studied painting on the continent, of Europe, ending her studies in Paris with Couture, remained in that city, and devoted herself mainly to figure-painting. She sent a portrait to the Philadelphia centennial exhibition. Some of her pictures were exhibited in Boston in 1877; and at the mechanics' fair in Boston in 1878 she exhibited “Head of a Tuscan Ox” and “Old Man Reading.” At the national academy exhibition of 1886 she had “Hydrangias” and “Old Woman Spinning.”