Julia Emily Gordon (1810 – 8 February 1896) was a British painter and engraver.
Life
She was the daughter of
Willoughby Gordon
General Sir James Willoughby Gordon, 1st Baronet (21 October 1772 – 4 January 1851) was a general officer in the British Army. He notably served as most long-standing Quartermaster-General to the Forces, holding the position for some 40 years.
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and his wife Isabella Julia Lavina Bennet; her father sketched and her mother worked in
watercolour and other media. The works of mother and daughter have sometimes been confused.
Her brother
Henry Percy Gordon was an engraver, and they produced joint work. The watercolourist Edward Swinburne, brother of
Sir John Swinburne, 6th Baronet, was a relation by marriage.
Her parents lived at
Beckenham and
Northcourt Manor, Isle of Wight.
J. M. W. Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 177519 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulen ...
stayed with them in 1827, at Northcourt.
Gordon died 8 February 1896 in London.
Works
Gordon's work is included in the collections of the
British Museum and the
Tate Museum, London.
Her personal papers are held in the Isle of Wight Record Office and the Kent History and Library Centre.
Gordon was the engraver for ''Milton's Penseroso'', a work by
John Milton
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual. His 1667 epic poem '' Paradise Lost'', written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political ...
held in the metropolitan Museum of Art.
Pennsylvania State University Libraries hold her "Sketches on the Rhine, and Rime del Petrarca", and an unpublished translation by her of
Johann Karl August Musäus' "
The Books of the Chronicles of the Three Sisters" for "J. H. A." In 1879 she published 44 etchings as a book titled ''Songs and Etchings in Shade and Sunshine'', using the initials "J. E. G."
References
1810 births
1896 deaths
19th-century British women artists
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