Marjorie Sherlock (1897-1973) was a British painter and etcher. Three books of her etchings were published between 1925 and 1932. Her painting ''Liverpool Street Station,'' now in the Government Art Collection, was first shown at the Royal Academy in 1917 and in 1987 was at

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when

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was

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. She studied at the

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, a pupil of

Walter Sickert Walter Richard Sickert (31 May 1860 – 22 January 1942) was a German-born British painter and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group of Post-Impressionist artists in early 20th-century London. He was an important influence on d ...

and

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; at the

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; and the

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. In Paris, she studied and worked with

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and

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. She was influenced by the

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. Her works were exhibited at the Royal Academy for 50 years. She was a friend and travelling companion of

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, the daughter of

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Personal life

Alice Marjorie Sherlock was born to Alice Mary (née Platts) Sherlock and civil engineer Henry Alexander George Sherlock at Fir Tree Cottage, George Lane,

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. In 1918 she married her first cousin, Wilfrid Kenyon Tufnell Barrett, who was born in 1897. They later divorced. Barrett, an Army Major, died in 1975. She was described as "a woman of distinct and forceful character." Sherlock liked to travel and visited the United States during the depression. In the 1940s she moved to

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, near

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in a "rambling" and "isolated" house.

, the daughter of

, lived near her and financed trips for the two of them. Sherlock grew her own vegetables and made her own clothes to supplement her limited income. She died of a heart attack on 2 April 1973 at her house on Angela Court in Tipton St John, Devon.

Education

During

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, Sherlock studied under

and

at the

. In 1917 ''Liverpool Street Station,'' an oil painting, was exhibited at the Royal Academy.Wendy Baron
''Sickert, Walter, pupils (act. 1890–1939).''
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, and Sherlock, who carried on with his approach into the 1920s and 1930s. Sherlock also studied at the

and studied etching beginning in 1926 at the

. She worked in Paris with Dunoyer de Segonzac and

Artist

Sherlock made oil paintings and copper etchings, in pen and ink, and in pencil. She created detailed, complex works, like the etching ''Waterloo Station.'' Her Egyptian, German and Indian etchings were published in 1925, 1929 and 1932, respectively. She was influenced by the

. For more than 50 years her works were exhibited at the

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. There were also exhibited in other group exhibitions at the Carnegie Institute, the

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, the

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, the

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, and the

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. Her painting ''Liverpool Street,'' made in 1917, was in the

collection in 1987, when

was

Works

A few of her works are: * ''Liverpool Street Station,'' 1917,

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* ''Liverpool Street Station in the Twenties,'' 1920s,

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* ''Railway Lines in the Snow,'' 1921,

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"Railway Lines in the Snow."
BBC. Retrieved 17 January 2014. * ''Landscape with Railway,'' date unknown, Government Art Collection"Landscape with Railway."
Government Art Collection. Retrieved 17 January 2014. * ''Waterloo Station,'' etching, date unknown.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sherlock, Marjorie 1897 births 1973 deaths 20th-century British printmakers 20th-century English painters 20th-century English women artists Alumni of the Royal College of Art Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art Alumni of the Westminster School of Art British etchers People from Wanstead Women etchers