Ina Maud Sheldon-Williams nee Thomson (1876–1956) was a British artist, known for her travel and landscape paintings.

Biography

Ina Sheldon-Williams was born in Ardrishaig, Argyll, in Scotland. She studied at the

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in London from 1895 to 1898 and also studied in Paris. She was widely travelled both throughout her life, in Britain, Italy and India. Ina Maud Thomson married Inglis Sheldon-Williams (1870-1940) in 1904 and they resided in England for the following decade. Inglis Sheldon-Williams was also an artist and a military figure, who had once studied with

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before enrolling at the Slade. He was a war correspondent during the

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and the 1904

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. During the First World War he worked as a war artist for the Canadian forces in France. In 1926, Sheldon-Williams exhibited a painting of the Italian and French Alps alongside her husband's war drawings at Messrs. W. J. Walter's New Gallery. Sheldon-Williams presented studies of an Indian figure for an exhibition in 1935. Established by

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in the early 1940s, Sheldon-Williams contributed to the Recording Britain scheme during the Second World War. She exhibited paintings on a regular basis in group and solo shows at the Royal Academy in London, with the

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, the

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and at Walker's Galleries, the Kensington Gallery and elsewhere. In July 2012, Sheldon-Williams' work was exhibited alongside work by

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. Sheldon-Williams had two daughters, Eve and Christina. Sheldon-Williams' daughter Eve was an artist and lecturer. Her granddaughter, Fran Hickox, is also an artist.

Works in public collections

Ina Sheldon-Williams' work is held in public collections in both the United Kingdom and Canada.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sheldon-Williams, Ina Maud 1876 births 1956 deaths 20th-century Scottish painters 20th-century Scottish women artists Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art Scottish women painters People from Knapdale