Mary Remington (1910–2003) was a British oil painter and artist.

Biography

Remington was born at Reigate in Surrey and, after attending the Redhill School of Art, won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London. She studied at the Royal College from 1930 to 1933 before continuing her training in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Throughout her subsequent career, Remington exhibited oil paintings and other works at the

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in London, with the

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, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the New English Art Club, NEAC. Remington was elected a member of the NEAC in 1954 and of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1962. She maintained a studio at Sutton in south London and died at Carshalton. Examples of her paintings are held by

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and in other public collections at Blackpool and at Kensington in London.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Remington, Mary 1910 births 2003 deaths 20th-century English painters 20th-century English women artists Alumni of the Académie de la Grande Chaumière Alumni of the Royal College of Art English portrait painters English women painters People from Reigate