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Peggy Somerville
Margaret Scott Somerville (2 June 1918 – 29 June 1975) was a child prodigy who learned to paint at the same time she learned to talk. Biography Somerville was born in Ashford in Middlesex to the artist and collector Charles Somerville and his wife Rose Annie, ''née'' Chantree. When she was three some of her watercolours were selected for an exhibition held by the Royal Society of Drawing. At the age of seven one of her paintings, ''Happy Days by the Sea'', was exhibited at the New Irish Salon in Dublin, having been chosen on merit by judges who knew nothing of her age. Her first one-woman 'retrospective' was held when she was nine at the Claridge Gallery in London. She was hailed as a child genius by newspapers throughout Britain and as far away as Boston, and, in a matter of days, each one of the hundred paintings on show had sold. Yet despite her fame she was a very private person and after studying at the Royal Academy Schools for just a few months she gave up formal study ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashford, Middlesex
Ashford is a town almost wholly in the Borough of Spelthorne, Surrey, with a small area contained within the boundaries of the London Borough of Hounslow, approximately west-southwest of central London. Its name derives from a crossing point of the River Ash, a distributary of the River Colne. Historically part of Middlesex, the town's wards have been part of Surrey County Council since 1965. Ashford consists of relatively low density low- and medium-rise buildings, none of them being high rise. If excluding apartments (at the last census 27% of the housing stock) most houses are semi-detached. Ashford railway station, on the Waterloo to Reading Line, is served by South Western Railway. Heathrow Airport is north of the town. A leading gymnastics club, HMP Bronzefield and one of the sites of Brooklands College are in the town. Ashford Hospital, which began as a workhouse, is to the north of the town centre. Ashford Common has a parade of shops and is a more residenti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
