Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale | |
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Royal Academy Schools | |
Known for | Painting |
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (25 January 1872 – 10 March 1945) was a British artist known for her paintings, book illustrations, and a number of works in stained glass.
Life
Fortescue-Brickdale was born at her parents' house, Birchamp Villa in
While at the academy, Fortescue-Brickdale came under the influence of
In 1909, Ernest Brown, of the Leicester Galleries, commissioned a series of 28 watercolour illustrations to Tennyson's Idylls of the King, which Fortescue-Brickdale painted over two years. They were exhibited at the gallery in 1911, and 24 of them were published the following year in a deluxe edition of the first four Idylls.[3]
She lived during much of her career in Holland Park Road, opposite
Fortescue-Brickdale exhibited at the first exhibition of the Society of Graphic Art in 1921.[4] Her 1921 World War I memorial to the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry is in York Minster.[5]
Later, she also worked with stained glass. She was a staunch Christian, and donated works to churches. Amongst her best known works are The Uninvited Guest and Guinevere. She died on 10 March 1945,[6][7] and is buried at Brompton Cemetery, London.[8]
Books illustrated
- Poems by Tennyson, 1905
- Pippa Passes by Robert Browning, 1908
- Men and Women by Browning, 1908
- Dramatis Personae by Browning, 1909
- Dramatic Romances and Lyrics by Browning, 1909
- Idylls of the King by Tennyson, 1911
- Story of St Elizabeth of Hungary by WM Canton, 1912
- Book of Ols English Songs and Ballaids by WM Canton, 1915
- Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale's Golden Book of Famous Women, 1919
- The Sweet and Touching Tale of Fleure and Blanchfleure, 1922
- Carols, 1925
- Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics published by Palgrave, 1925
- A Diary of an Eighteenth Century Garden, Calthorp, 1926.[2]
Works
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Love and his Counterfeits, 1904
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The Uninvited Guest, 1906.
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They toil not, neither do they spin
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The introduction
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Riches
Golden book of famous women (1919)
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Intro
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Abelard
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Fair Rosamund
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Dante and Beatrice
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Petrarca
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"Yestreen Queen Mary had four Maries, This night she'll hae but three; She had Mary Seaton, and Mary Beaton, And Mary Carmichael, and me" (Mary Hamilton)
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Maud is only seventeen
See also
References
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- ^ ISBN 0-902028-72-3.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-84384-183-8.
- ^ "List of Members", Catalogue of the First Annual Exhibition of the Society of Graphic Art, London: Society of Graphic Art: 45–48, January 1921
- ^ Historic England. "Cathedral Church of St Peter, York Minster (1257222)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
- ^ Jan Marsh & Pamela Gerrish Nunn (1997). Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists.
- ^ "Notable Monuments". The Friends of Brompton Cemetery. Archived from the original on 13 October 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- Pamela Gerrish Nunn (2012). A Pre-Raphaelite Journey.
External links
- 7 artworks by or after Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale at the Art UK site
- Works by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale at Internet Archive
- Paintings by E. Fortescue-Brickdale (Art Renewal Center)
- Paintings by E. Fortescue-Brickdale (Pre-Raphaelite Women)
- E. Fortescue-Brickdale - short biography and works ("Celtic Twilight")
- Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden Book of Famous Women, London, New York, Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919.