English Female Artists
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| Author | Ellen Creathorne Clayton |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English language |
| Genre | Art history |
| Publisher | Tinsley Brothers |
Publication date | 1876 |
| Pages | 369 & 331 |
| OCLC | 608634722 |
English Female Artists, in two volumes, assembled and edited by Ellen Creathorne Clayton, lists an overview of prominent English women painters up to 1876, the year of publication.
The purpose of the book was to provide "a roll call of honorable names."[1] The book is a useful reference work for anyone studying British women's art.
Volume I (historical female artists)[]
- Susannah Hornebolt and Levina Teerlinc
- Anne Carlisle, Artemisia Gentileschi, The Sisters Cleyn
- Anna Maria Carew, , Mary More, , Elizabeth Creed
- Mary Beale, Susan Penelope Rosse, Anne Killigrew, Maria Verelst, Anne, Princess of Orange, Princess Caroline, Agatha van der Mijn, Sarah Hoadly, Elizabeth Blackwell, Mary Delany, Frances Reynolds, Angelica Kauffman, Mary Moser, Maria Cosway, Mary Harrison, Anna Maria Charretie,
Volume II (contemporary artists)[]
The second volume is a list of biographies of women active in the 19th century, most of whom were contemporaries whose works were known to the author. It is grouped by painting genre and includes an appendix of amateurs and women who were "Honorary Members" of the "Society of Lady Artists". The second volume also includes the index for both volumes.
Figure painters[]
Helen Allingham, Laura Alma-Tadema, Sophie Anderson, Edith Courtauld-Arendrup, Margaret Backhouse, Julia Behr, Kate Bisschop-Swift, Agnes Rose Bouvier Nicholl, Alice Boyd, Adelaide Claxton, , Fanny Corbaux, Mary Ann Criddle, Mary Ellen Edwards, Eliza Bridell Fox, Margaret Gillies, , Catherine Hueffer (sister of Mrs. WM Rossetti), Elizabeth Jerichau, Louise Jopling, , Elizabeth Murray, Lucy Madox Brown (Mrs. WM Rossetti), Sarah Setchel, Rebecca Solomon, , Louisa Starr, Marie Spartali-Stillman, Ellen Stone, Elizabeth Thompson, , Eliza Turck, , Henrietta, and her daughters and
Landscape painters[]
Barbara Bodichon, Eleanor Brown, Marian Emma Chase, , Susan Elizabeth Gay, Mary Gow, , Madeline Marrable, Anna Blunden Martino, Clara Montalba, Emma Sophia Oliver, , Louise, , and , , , and , Hilda Annetta Walker, ,
Portrait and miniature painters, painters on enamel, etc.[]
, , Annie Dixon, , , Ellen Montalba, , Margaret Thomas
Painters of flowers, fruit, and still life[]
Helen Cordelia Angell, , , Mary Ann Duffield, , , Maria Harrison, , Florence Lewis, Agnes MacWhirter, Martha Darley Mutrie and Annie Feray Mutrie, , , Eloise Harriet Stannard, and , Emma Walter
Animal painters[]
, , Frances C. Fairman, , Mary Louisa Kirschner, Gertrude Jekyll, , Hilda Annetta Walker.
Humorous designers[]
Georgina Bowers, Ellen Creathorne Clayton, Adelaide Claxton, Marie Duval
Decorative artists[]
, Emily Edwards (sister of Mrs. Sparkes), Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Priscilla Anne, Countess of Westmorland, Marion Margaret, Viscountess Alford, , Eleanor Vere Boyle, , , Mrs. Hugh Blackburn, Mrs. Higford Burr, , , , ,
References[]
- ^ Dedication page of Volume I, which is dedicated to the artist Elizabeth Thompson for her genius
- Lists of painters
- 1876 non-fiction books
- Lists of British women artists
- Biographical dictionaries of women