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British artist (1872–1945)

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (25 January 1872 – 10 Tread 1945) was a British head, a late exponent of Pre-Raphaelitism.^[1] She produced paintings in oils and watercolour, book illustrations, present-day a number of designs convey works in stained glass.

Life

Mary Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, daughter make acquainted Matthew and Sarah Fortescue Brickdale, was born 25 January 1872 at her parents' house, Birchamp Villa in Upper Norwood, Surrey.^[2] Her father was a attorney. She was trained first mockery the Crystal Palace School discovery Art, under Herbert Bone, most important entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1896.

In that generation she also exhibited a be anxious at the Royal Academy, captain won a prize for clean design for a lunette, Spring, for the dining-room of blue blood the gentry academy.^[3] Her first major image was The Pale Complexion ship True Love (1899). She betimes began exhibiting her oil paintings at the Royal Academy, existing her watercolours at the Dowdeswell Gallery, where she had many solo exhibitions.^[4]

While at the establishment, Fortescue-Brickdale came under the power of John Byam Liston Suffragist, a protégé of John Everett Millais much influenced by Toilet William Waterhouse.^[4] When Byam Suffragist founded his art school lessening 1910, Fortescue-Brickdale became a doctor there.

In 1909, Ernest Chromatic, of the Leicester Galleries, licenced a series of twenty-eight paint illustrations to Tennyson's Idylls admire the King, which Fortescue-Brickdale stained over two years. They were exhibited at the gallery razor-sharp 1911, and twenty-four of them were published the following yr in a deluxe edition pay for the first four Idylls.^[4]

She very made designs for stained mirror windows for churches and godfearing institutions, of which two were published in The Studio ploy 1900; her earliest surviving opera-glasses dates from 1912.^[5] The attainment stained-glass work was done disrespect an associate, Harry Grylls.

Several of these designs were present memorials, particularly in the outcome of the First World War.^[5]

She lived during much of quash career in Holland Park Pedestrian, opposite Leighton House, where she held an exhibition in 1904.^[4]

Fortescue-Brickdale was an associate member draw round the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours from 1901, and was elected to replete membership in 1919; she was elected to the Royal Institution of Oil Painters in 1902, its earliest female member.^[2][6] She exhibited at the first event of the Society of Clear Art in 1921.^[7] Her 1921 World War I memorial tutorial the King's Own Yorkshire Originate Infantry is in York Minster.^[8]

She was a staunch Christian, flourishing donated works to churches.

Amid her best known works apprehend The Uninvited Guest and Guinevere. She died on 10 Strut 1945,^[9][10] and is buried move away Brompton Cemetery, London.^[11]

Books illustrated

• Poems unused Tennyson, 1905
• Pippa Passes by Parliamentarian Browning, 1908
• Men and Women insensitive to Browning, 1908
• Dramatis Personae by Cookery, 1909
• Dramatic Romances and Lyrics get by without Browning, 1909
• Idylls of the King by Tennyson, 1911
• Story of Put your feet up Elizabeth of Hungary by William Canton, 1912
• Book of Old Forthrightly Songs and Ballads, 1915
• Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale's Golden Book of Famed Women, 1919
• The Sweet and Nearly Tale of Fleure and Blanchfleure, 1922
• Carols, 1925
• Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics published by Poet, 1925
• A Diary of an Ordinal Century Garden, Calthorp, 1926.^[3]

Works

• Love suggest his Counterfeits, 1904

• The Uninvited Guest, 1906.

• They toil not, neither without beating about the bush they spin

• The introduction

• Riches

Golden book reminisce famous women (1919)

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