Helen Cordelia Angell, née Coleman (1847 – 1884) was an English watercolour painter.

Biography

Angell was the fifth daughter of the twelve children of Henrietta Dendy and William Thomas Coleman, a physician. She was schooled at home. Along with her sister, pottery artist Rose Rebecca Coleman, she learned painting and drawing from their older brother

William Stephen Coleman William Stephen Coleman (1829–1904) was an English painter and book illustrator. Life Born at Horsham, Sussex, he was one of the 12 children of the surgeon William Thomas Coleman and his wife Henrietta Dendy; the artist Helen Cordelia Coleman ...

, who kept an art pottery studio in South Kensington. Her early watercolor paintings were first exhibited in the Dudley Gallery in London in 1864. She married Thomas William Angell on 15 October 1874. He was a postmaster and an amateur artist. Angell was a member of both the

Royal Watercolour Society The Royal Watercolour Society is a British institution of painters working in watercolours. The Society is a centre of excellence for water-based media on paper, which allows for a diverse and interesting range of approaches to the medium of wa ...

and the

Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI), initially called the New Society of Painters in Water Colours, is one of the societies in the Federation of British Artists, based in the Mall Galleries in London. History In 1831 the so ...

, who awarded her a membership in 1875. Before his death, watercolor painter William Henry Hunt named Coleman his only successor. She was

Flower Painter in Ordinary Flower Painter in Ordinary, also called ''Flower Painter to the Queen'', is a position in the United Kingdom awarded to a painter, and connected to the Queen. Holders of the office included: *Joseph Barney, "Fruit and Flower Painter to the Queen", ...

to Queen Victoria from 1879 until her death. Her painting ''Study of a bird's nest'' was included in the 1905 book ''

Women Painters of the World ''Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413–1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day'', assembled and edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow, lists an overview of prominent women painters up to 1905, the year of publication. Th ...

''.
Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day
', by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905 Her work can be found in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Angell died from uterine cancer at the age of 37 on 8 March 1884.

References

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