This sounds like a commissioned commercial artist. Was your family wealthy at the time? Did you find her in the 1900 or 1910 census?

Looking for these surnames in Bristol and New Haven 1901-1910. Auguste Manzei married Wlihelm Mueller/Miller January 1, 1903 in Bristol, CT at the Immanuel Lutheran Church

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My German family spent time in both Bristol and New Haven 1901-1910 before moving to Hoboken, NJ. Surnames Manzei and Mueller aka Miller. The family was lutheran

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