Héléna Arsène Darmesteter
Héléna Arsène Darmesteter | |
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| Born | 1854 |
| Died | 1923 |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
Héléna Arsène Darmesteter, born Héléna Hartog (1854 – 1923) was a British portrait painter.
Biography[]
Darmesteter was born in London as the daughter of a French school teacher and the editor of the first Jewish women’s periodical, Marion Hartog Moss.[1] Her parents ran a French boarding school where Héléna learned to speak French. She later studied painting in Paris under Gustave Courtois,[2] where she met her husband Arsène Darmesteter.
She became a successful portrait painter, exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1891 and 1894 and at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900.[3] She also showed works at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions in 1907 and 1908.[2] She was a member of the Société des Artistes Français and of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.[2] Philip, Numa and Marcus Hartog were her brothers, and her husband's brother James Darmesteter married the poet A. Mary F. Robinson.
Her self-portrait and a study of a woman before a mirror were included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[4]
Portrait of cousin Sarah Marks (later called Hertha Ayrton)
Study of a woman before a mirror
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- ^ Marion Moss in the Jewish Women's Archive
- ^ Jump up to: a b c W.M Schwab (Editor) (1987). Jewish Artists The Ben Uri Collection. Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd / Ben Uri Art Society. ISBN 0-85331-537-X.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
- ^ The Royal Academy of Arts; a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904
- ^ Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905
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