Beatrice Ethel Lithiby
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Beatrice Ethel Lithiby
Biography
Early life
Lithiby was born at
First World War
During the
In February 1919, she approached the Women's Work Committee of the Imperial War Museum with an offer to record the activities of the QMAAC members remaining in France before their units were disbanded and they returned home.[6] The Committee agreed to her proposal and Lithiby spent a further six months in France recording, in sketches and watercolour paintings, the work of the QMAAC at camps in Dieppe, Rouen, Le Havre and Abbeville where the Corps' members were tending cemeteries, clearing former battlefields and performing other industrial and administrative roles.[6] Although Lithiby had initially agreed a greatly reduced fee with the Committee, three months into her commission the Committee wrote to her to say that due to budget cuts they would be unable to pay her at all.[6] Lithiby continued with the work and in due course donated twenty watercolours to the Imperial War Museum which form a rare artistic record of the work of women in military service at the time.[6]
Post-WW1
From 1920 to 1939, Lithiby worked as a figure and landscape painter and muralist. She regularly exhibited at both the
For many years Lithiby lived at Wantage in Berkshire.[2] Her home and studio were in the grounds of an Anglican convent, the Community of St Mary the Virgin, and Lithiby was a devout Christian.[3] She compiled a history book about Wantage parish church.[3]
During the
She died on 25 July 1966,[12] on the 50th anniversary of the death of Frank Skinner.[3] She never married.[12]
See also
References
- ^ a b "Lithiby, Beatrice Ethel". Suffolk Artists. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
- ^ a b c Grant M. Waters (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950. Eastbourne Fine Art.
- ^ ISBN 0-953260-95-X.
- ^ "No. 30511". The London Gazette (Supplement). 5 February 1918. p. 1711.
- ^ "Photographs: UNIT ADMINISTRATOR MISS BEATRICE ETHEL LITHIBY". Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
- ^ ISBN 978-178023-374-1.
- ^ "No. 30709". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 May 1918. p. 6302.
- ^ "No. 31377". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 May 1919. pp. 6995–6999.
- ^ "No. 31716". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 January 1920. p. 147.
- ^ "No. 35218". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 July 1941. p. 4053.
- ^ a b "No. 36309". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1943. pp. 10–11.
- ^ a b "No. 44166". The London Gazette. 8 November 1966. p. 12133.