Jensine Costello
Jensine Costello (born 7 May 1886) was a Norwegian painter of portraits and figure subjects who spent her career in Great Britain.
Biography[]
Costello was born and grew up in Norway and, after spending time in the United States, moved to England where she studied at Heatherley's School of Art in London.[1][2] She painted portraits and figure subjects, usually in oils, and exhibited widely. From 1936 to 1938 Costello showed works in Paris at the Paris Salon.[3] She also exhibited with the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Society of Women Artists, the National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers.[1][4] For a time Costello lived at Ilford in Essex and then at Exmouth in Devon.[3][4]
References[]
- ^ a b David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0 953260 95 X.
- ^ Brian Stewart & Mervyn Cutten (1997). The Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1 85149 173 2.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- ^ a b Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 4 Cossintino-Dyck. Editions Grund, Paris. 2006. ISBN 2 7000 3074 5.
- ^ a b Grant M. Waters (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900–1950. Eastbourne Fine Art.
Categories:
- 1886 births
- 19th-century Norwegian painters
- 19th-century Norwegian women artists
- 20th-century Norwegian painters
- 20th-century Norwegian women artists
- Alumni of the Heatherley School of Fine Art
- Norwegian emigrants to England
- Norwegian women painters