Keturah Anne Collings (1862-1948) was a British painter and photographer.
Biography
Collings née Beedle was born in 1862 in
Weston-super-Mare, England. She started her artistic career as a portrait artist and miniaturist.
In 1887 she married Arthur Albert
Esme Collings (1859-1936). During the late 1900s she assisted her husband at his photography studio in
Brighton and Hove before opening her own
London
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photographic studio in the early 1900s.
Collings worked creating portraits, both painted and photographic, until her death in 1948 in London.
Her work is in the collections of the
National Portrait Gallery, London
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(as Keturah Ann Collings)
and the
Tate
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Gallery (as Keturah Collings).
Gallery
Keturah Anne Collings - Major Arthur Pain c.1882.jpg, ''Major Arthur Pain'', c.1882
Victoria Louise of Prussia, Duchess of Brunswick.jpg, '' Victoria Louise of Prussia, Duchess of Brunswick''
Prinz Wilhelm und Prinz Louis Ferdinand von Preußen, 1913.JPG, '' Prinz Wilhelm und Prinz Louis Ferdinand von Preußen'', 1913
Keturah Anne Collings - Robert George Paterson, OBE, c. 1940.jpg, ''Robert George Paterson, OBE'', c.1940
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1862 births
1948 deaths
People from Weston-super-Mare
19th-century English women artists
20th-century English women artists