Lilla Cabot Perry (1848–1933) was a Boston-born artist and influential advocate for French Impressionism in America, working alongside Mary Cassatt to promote the movement through writing, lectures, and patronage. After training in Boston, she studied in Paris with Alfred Stevens and at the Julian and Colarossi Academies, eventually settling in Giverny, where she became a close friend and neighbor of Claude Monet. Inspired by his guidance, she painted alongside him for ten summers and later published Reminiscences of Claude Monet in 1927. Perry was a founding member and the first secretary of the Guild of Boston Artists, helping to support and shape the Boston art community. She also spent several years in Japan, where she created more than eighty Impressionist works that captured local landscapes and culture with extraordinary sensitivity.