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List Of English Women Artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in England or whose works are closely associated with that country. A * Evelyn Abelson (1886–1967), painter * Ruth Abrahams (1931–2000), painter, illustrator *Judith Ackland (1892–1971), landscape painter * Elinor Proby Adams (1885–1945), painter * Sarah Gough Adamson (1888–1963), painter * Edith Helena Adie (1865–1947), painter *Marion Adnams (1898–1995), painter, printmaker, and draughtswoman *Mary Adshead (1904–1995), painter, illustrator, designer *Eileen Agar (1899–1991), painter and photographer * Sam Ainsley (born 1950), painter and tapestry artist *Pauline Aitken (1893–1958), sculptor * Eileen Aldridge (1916–1990), painter * Griselda Allan (1905–1987), painter *Rosemary Allan (1911–2008), painter * Daphne Allen (1899–1985), painter *Kathleen Allen (1906–1983), painter *Helen Allingham (1848–1926), watercolourist, illustrator * Anna Alma-Tadema (1867–1943), painter *Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic period, but takes its name from the Angles, a Germanic tribe deriving its name from the Anglia peninsula, who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in the 10th century and has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century. The English language, the Anglican Church, and Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Allingham
Helen Allingham (née Paterson; 26 September 1848 – 28 September 1926) was a British watercolourist and illustrator of the Victorian era. Biography Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson was born on 26 September 1848, at Swadlincote in Derbyshire, the daughter of Alexander Henry Paterson, a medical doctor, and Mary Herford Paterson. Helen was the eldest of seven children. The year after her birth the family moved to Altrincham in Cheshire. In 1862 her father and her three-year-old sister Isabel died of diphtheria during an epidemic. The remaining family then moved to Birmingham, where some of Alexander Paterson's family lived. Paterson showed a talent for art from an early age, drawing some of her inspiration from her maternal grandmother Sarah Smith Herford and aunt Laura Herford, both accomplished artists of their day. Her younger sister Caroline Paterson also became a noted artist. She initially studied art for three years at the Birmingham School of Design. She spent a year at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Ara
Rachel Ara (born 1965, Jersey) is a London-based contemporary British conceptual and data artist. Overview Ara was originally a computer programmer. She then studied for a Fine Art BA degree at Goldsmiths, University of London. Ara is an elected Academician of the Royal West of England Academy. She is also a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors. Rachel Ara has exhibited in the Barbican Centre, Whitechapel Gallery, Mall Galleries, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, UK. Internationally, her works have been exhibited at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, South Korea, and the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria. She has an interest in data protection with respect to her works. She gives talks on her work, including at the London Design Festival. Education Ara studied BA(Hons) Fine Art at Goldsmiths where she won the Neville Burston Award for the most outstanding student. Selected exhibitions * ''V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Margaret Coke, Viscountess Anson
Anne Margaret Coke, Viscountess Anson (25 January 1779 – 23 May 1843), was an English painter, the daughter of Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester of Holkham, and wife of Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson. Personal life Anne Margaret Coke was born at Holkam Hall on 25 January 1779 to Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester of Holkham, and Jane Dutton. Anne had an older sister, Jane, born in 1777, and a younger sister, Elizabeth born in 1795, one year after Anne was married. Jane was married by that time, too. Her mother was an abolitionist, spent her allowance on donations to the poor and theater tickets for her servants. Jane Dutton also believed in the importance of a good education for her children. At the age of 15, Anne Margaret Coke was married to 27-year-old Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson, in September 1794. He was a member of parliament, worth £22,000 () per year, and heir to Shugborough estate in Staffordshire. The Duke of Sussex said that he was a "true manly, noble ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Anne Ansley
Mary Anne Ansley, née Gaudon (fl. 1810–1840) was a British artist known for her depiction of mythological subjects and for her portrait paintings. Biography Ansley was the daughter of an architect and married a British Army officer, a Colonel Ansley. Between 1814 and 1833 she exhibited some twenty-two works at the Royal Academy. Some twenty-one pieces by her were also shown at the British Institution in London between 1812 and 1823. She was also a regular exhibitor at the Suffolk Street gallery of the Royal Society of British Artists. In 1833 Ansley painted a portrait of Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte for which the Prince sat for her in London. For many years a number of her works were held at Houghton Hall in Huntingdonshire with which she had a family connection. Ansley spent some time in Italy and died in Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norah Ansell
Norah Marjorie Ansell (6 July 1906 –1990) was a British sculptor who worked mostly in wood, ivory and bronze. Biography Ansell was born in Wiltshire and took evening classes at the Birmingham College of Arts and Crafts and remained in that city for most of her career, living in the Edgbaston area. She produced statuettes and portrait busts in a variety of materials including bronze, wood and ivory. Ansell exhibited with the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and the Royal Academy in London during 1945 and then subsequently with the Royal Academy. From 1950 to 1955 she was a regular exhibitor with the Society of Women Artists The Society of Women Artists (SWA) is a British art body dedicated to celebrating and promoting fine art created by women. It was founded as the Society of Female Artists (SFA) in about 1855, offering women artists the opportunity to exhibit and .... Ansell was awarded a prize at the International Ivory Sculpture Competition and Exhibition h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Ansell
Amanda Ansell (born 1976) is an English artist. She studied Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts between 1995 and 1998 and then at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London from 1998 to 2000. After living in London for seven years, she returned to her native Suffolk in 2006 to begin an artist residency at Firstsite, Colchester. The same year, a body of work was selected for exhibition at Kettles Yard, Cambridge and she was nominated for Jerwood Contemporary Painters. Her paintings are abstract and make use of a limited palette to explore the relationship between artist and nature. Selected group exhibitions * “Royal Academy Summer Exhibition” Royal Academy of Arts, London (2018) * “Contemporary Masters from Britain: 80 British Painters of the 21st Century” Yantai Art Museum (2017), Jiangsu Art Gallery (2017) and Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts (2017 – 2018) * “Anything Goes” Bermondsey Project Space (2017) * “The London Group Open Exhibition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mabel Annesley
Lady Mabel Marguerite Annesley ''HRUA'' (25 February 1881 – 19 June 1959) was a wood-engraver and watercolour painter. Her work is in many collections, including the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Gallery of Canada and the Museum of New Zealand. She exhibited in the Festival of Britain in 1952. Early life and family She was born on 25 February 1881, at Annesley Lodge, Regent's Park, London, the daughter of Hugh Annesley, 5th Earl Annesley (1831–1908), lieutenant-colonel in the Scots Fusilier Guards and landowner, and his first wife, Mabel Wilhelmina Frances Markham, Countess Annesley (1858–1891). Her mother was the greatgranddaughter of Sir Francis Grant, eminent Victorian portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy. Her half-sister, Lady Constance Malleson was a writer, actress, and mistress of Bertrand Russell. She was initially taught at home, then in 1895, at fourteen, she began study at the Frank Calderon School of Animal Paintin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatrice Angle
Beatrice Angle (1859–1915) was a British sculptor who worked in terracotta and bronze. Biography Angle was born in Hornsey in north London but grew up in neighbouring Islington, one of the eleven children of Susan and John Angle, a job master. Angle specialised in terracotta and bronze busts and heads, but on occasion also produced porcelian pieces and more imaginative designs. At the Paris Salon of 1892 she showed a statuette entitled ''The Young Venitian''. Angle exhibited pieces at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and in London, showing some 16 works at the Royal Academy between 1885 and 1899 and two pieces at the Society of Women Artists in 1890. For some time Angle maintained a studio at Yeoman's Row in Kensington but later lived at Sandwich A sandwich is a food typically consisting of vegetables, sliced cheese or meat, placed on or between slices of bread, or more generally any dish wherein bread serves as a container or wrapper for another food type. The sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Angel (artist)
Marie Felicity Angel (1923–2010) was a British illustrator and calligrapher known for her book illustrations. Biography Angel was born in London and educated at Coloma Convent Girls' School. Throughout World War II she attended the Croydon School of Arts and Crafts and after the war studied at the Royal College of Art design school until 1948. Her work as a freelance illustrator led to a commission from Harvard College Library to produce a number of illustrated bestiaries which in turn led to Angel working on a number of children's books, for both American and British publishers. She also wrote and illustrated books on the techniques of calligraphy and a volume of flower illustrations. Works by Angel have been shown at the Royal Academy in London and the Society of Designer Craftsmen and in solo exhibitions in America. Both the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and Harvard Library hold examples of her work. The Hunt Institute has a number of her botanical watercolours. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilian Andrews
Lilian Andrews ( Lilian Rusbridge; 2 August 1878 – 1962) was a British artist who specialised in creating paintings of birds and animals. Biography Andrews was born in Brighton, where her father was an inventor and engineer, and where she studied at the Brighton School of Art and won a bronze medal for design. Awarded an Art Masters' Teaching Certificate, Andrews was teaching art by the age of twenty-two. Working in pastels and watercolours Andrews painted landscapes and depicted birds and animals. Andrews had solo exhibitions in Leeds, Bradford, Newcastle upon Tyne and in Bournemouth and Brighton. Between 1912 and 1960 she exhibited some 39 pictures at the Royal Academy in London, the majority of which were bird paintings. She also exhibited with the Royal Scottish Academy during 1954 and 1955 and, in 1952, with the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and at the Paris Salon. For a time Andrews taught at the Brighton College of Art but after her marriage to Douglas S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Alice Andrews
Edith Alice Andrews ( Cubitt; 1873–1958) was a British painter and illustrator. Biography Andrews was born in Deptford to Kate and Herbert Cubitt, who were from Surrey and Norfolk respectively. Andrews studied at Goldsmiths' College of Art in London and won a number of medals and prizes while a student. During her career, Andrews illustrated books, including children's books, for several publishers including the Oxford University Press, Cassell, Blackie and Son and Ernest Nister. She also created flower paintings, portrait pictures and miniatures. One of her designs was used as publicity by the Great Western Railway. Andrews was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy in London between 1905 and 1954 and with the Society of Women Artists during the 1920s. She also exhibited with the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, at the Paris Salon and at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Andrews lived at High Wycombe for a time and then a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
