Frances Mabel Hollams (1877–1963), who signed her works F.M. Hollams, was a popular British

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of horses and dogs, active in the first three decades of the 20th century. She is noted for her technique of painting on wood panel with no background, so that the grain of the wood is visible.British Artist Biographies: F M (Florence Mabel) Hollams
British Fine Arts website. Retrieved 2013-12-30. Growing up at

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in Shipbourne she later moved to Puttenden Manor near the hamlet of Dunks Green.

Education

Mabel studied under the artist Frank Calderdon and, at a time when most schools did not accept female students, she studied in Paris at

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Career

Hollams was a prolific painter of animals, mainly horses. Her works occasionally come up for auction and fetch reasonable prices. She painted for Royalty and many aristocratic families. One of her paintings, a royal horse, hangs in the

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at Imber Court. She was also one of the first female

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, exhibiting eight paintings, and in 1899 was elected to the Society of Women Artists. She was married to Charles Lionel Fox, a land agent who worked for racehorse owners the Cazelet family. She signed her pieces with "F.M. Hollams".

Works

A partial list of works is: * ''A Chestnut Thorough Called 'Enterprise','' oil, National Trust Collection, England * ''A Roan Horse,'' oil on varnished pantel, National Trust, England * Columcille,' a Horse in a Stable,'' 1937, oil on canvas, National Trust, England * ''General Fanshawe's Hunter, 'Ich Dien','' 1949, oil on canvas, 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards Heritage Trust, England * ''General Fanshawe's Hunter 'Mayfly','' 1943, oil on canvas, 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards Heritage Trust, England * Halse', a Chestnut Hunter,'' 1926, oil on panel, National Trust, England * ''His Last Fence, before 1906 * ''Something Wrong,'' before 1898, sketch, illustrationRoyal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Henry Blackburn (1898)
''Academy Notes.''
Chatto and Windus. p. 8.

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hollams, F. M. 1877 births 1963 deaths British women painters 19th-century British women artists 20th-century British painters 20th-century British women artists