Kate Muriel Mason Eadie (4 May 1880 – 8 November 1945) was a British
jeweller
A bench jeweler is an artisan who uses a combination of skills to make and repair jewelry. Some of the more common skills that a bench jeweler might employ include antique restoration, silversmith, Goldsmith, stone setting, engraving, fabricat ...
and craftswoman
in
Birmingham
Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1. ...
, working in the
Arts and Crafts style.
In September 1940, she married the Birmingham
Pre-Raphaelite
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James ...
painter
Sidney Meteyard
Sidney Harold Meteyard Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, RBSA (1868 – 4 April 1947) was an England, English Art education, art teacher, painting, painter and stained-glass designer. A member of the Birmingham Group (artists), Birmingham Group, ...
,
whom she met when she studied at
Birmingham School of Art,
having modelled for many of his pictures,
including ''Jasmine''.
They worked together on
stained glass.
A well as jewellery, she made larger items such as
fire screens.
In 1915, she was elected an associate of the
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists or RBSA is an art society, based in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, England, where it owns and operates an art gallery, the RBSA Gallery, on Brook Street, just off St Paul's Square. It is both a ...
,
with whom she had exhibited a case of jewellery in 1908–1909, a processional cross in 1909, and another case of jewellery in 1911.
At one time, she lived at The Malthouse, Evesham Road,
Cookhill
Cookhill is a village and civil parish in Worcestershire, England, on the county border near Alcester. It is close to a former Cistercian Priory of the same name.
History
In the Domesday Book; Cookhill is mentioned as being in the Hundred of As ...
, Alcester, Warwickshire, with her sisters, and with Meteyard.
She died on 8 November 1945.
[England & Wales, National Probate Calendar 1946]
References
External links
''Jasmine'', by Sidney Harold Meteyard
1880 births
1945 deaths
Arts and Crafts movement artists
Artists from Birmingham, West Midlands
Members and Associates of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
English jewellers
Alumni of the Birmingham School of Art
Women jewellers
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