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Selina Bracebridge (née Mills; 1800 – 1874) was a British artist, medical reformer, and travel writer.
Selina Bracebridge studied art under the celebrated artist 
The Bracebridges acted as administrative assistants to Nightingale for nine months at the Barrack Hospital during the Crimean War. When Nightingale fell dangerously ill at Balaclava in May 1855 they escorted her back to Scutari.
She is one of the subjects in
The Mission of Mercy: Florence Nightingale receiving the Wounded at Scutari
'. She and Nightingale remained close until her death in 1874, and Nightingale lamented her loss in a letter, saying ‘She was more than a mother to me’.
''A Mirror For Medicine: some resources of the Wellcome Institute Library''
(via archive.org) 1800 births 1874 deaths British women travel writers British travel writers 19th-century British women artists 19th-century British women writers 19th-century British writers {{UK-writer-stub
Samuel Prout
Samuel Prout painted by John Jackson in 1831
Market Day by Samuel Prout
A View in Nuremberg by Samuel Prout
Utrecht Town Hall by Samuel Prout in 1841
Samuel Prout (; 17 September 1783 – 10 February 1852) was a British watercolourist, and ...
, and travelled widely as part of her art education.
She married Charles Holte Bracebridge (1799-1872) in 1824, and lived in Athens for much of the 1830s.
She became close friends with Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale (; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War ...
in 1846, and the Bracebridges travelled with her to Rome from 1847 to 1848, and around Europe, Greece, and Egypt between 1849 and 1850.
The Bracebridges acted as administrative assistants to Nightingale for nine months at the Barrack Hospital during the Crimean War. When Nightingale fell dangerously ill at Balaclava in May 1855 they escorted her back to Scutari.
She is one of the subjects in Jerry Barrett
Jerry Barrett (1824–21 January 1906) was an English painter of the Victorian era. His most notable work was the Crimean War depiction ''The Mission of Mercy: Nightingale receiving the wounded at Scutari'' (1858) which is in the National Po ...
’s large 1857 painting The Mission of Mercy: Florence Nightingale receiving the Wounded at Scutari
'. She and Nightingale remained close until her death in 1874, and Nightingale lamented her loss in a letter, saying ‘She was more than a mother to me’.
Selected works
*''A Fortified Town on a Hilltop (North side of the Acropolis, Athens)'', watercolour, c. 1825-1855 * ''Palestine'', an album containing 5 maps, 2 architectural drawings, 36 landscape sketches and 4 etchings, c.1833References
External links
''A Mirror For Medicine: some resources of the Wellcome Institute Library''
(via archive.org) 1800 births 1874 deaths British women travel writers British travel writers 19th-century British women artists 19th-century British women writers 19th-century British writers {{UK-writer-stub