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Breta Longacre
Lyme Art Colony
American, (1887–1923) In Lyme: 1914-1915
Little information is available on Breta Longacre, partly due to her untimely death at the age of 35. She was born in Baltimore in 1887, one of four children of a Methodist minister, and a granddaughter of james barton Longacre, a designer of coins for the U.S. Mint from 1844 to 1869 whose work included the Indan head penny.

Breta Longacre studied at the Art Students League, but her work was undoubtedly influenced by her sister Lydia, an artist and miniaturist who was 17 years her senior. Breta specialized in New England landscapes and still lifes which were treated in a delicate, impressionistic style. She participated in exhibitions at the National Academy of Design, and was a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, and the Society of American Women Artists. It was her sister Lydia who introduced her to the Lyme Art Colony, where Breta exhibited in 1914 and 1915.

After her marriage in 1918, Breta became a resident of Greenwich, Connecticut. In 1937, on the 50th anniversary of her birth, the Greenwhich Public Library held a memorial show of her work.