Lilian Andrews ( Lilian Rusbridge; 2 August 1878 – 1962) was a British artist who specialised in creating paintings of birds and animals.

Biography

Andrews was born in

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, where her father was an inventor and engineer, and where she studied at the

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and won a bronze medal for design. Awarded an Art Masters' Teaching Certificate, Andrews was teaching art by the age of twenty-two. Working in pastels and watercolours Andrews painted landscapes and depicted birds and animals. Andrews had solo exhibitions in Leeds, Bradford, Newcastle upon Tyne and in Bournemouth and Brighton. Between 1912 and 1960 she exhibited some 39 pictures at the

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in London, the majority of which were bird paintings. She also exhibited with the

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during 1954 and 1955 and, in 1952, with the

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and at the

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. For a time Andrews taught at the Brighton College of Art but after her marriage to Douglas Sharpus Andrews in 1910, the principal of Leeds School of Art, she also lived in Leeds, Sheffield, Bath and, latterly, London. The

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in Newcastle upon Tyne,

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and Nottingham Art Gallery all hold examples of Andrews' paintings.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Andrews, Lilian 1878 births 1960s deaths 20th-century English women artists Alumni of the University of Brighton Artists from Brighton English women painters