Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872 - 1945)

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Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale was a British Pre-Raphaelite painter, illustrator and stained glass artist.

At the age of 17, she enrolled at Crystal Palace School of Art and was later admitted to the Royal Academy of London and she initially worked with illustration. In 1897, Eleanor won a prize for her painting "Spring", which allowed her to begin work on her first large-scale oil painting, "The Pale Color of True Love". The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1899.

In 1902 Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale was elected the first female member of the Institute of Oil Painters. She illustrated many books, including Tennyson's Royal Idylls in 1911. She taught at the Byam Shaw School of Art in Kensington. During the First World War, the artist designed posters for government departments and later several commemorative stained glass windows and a memorial in York Cathedral. In 1919 she became a member of the Royal Society of Watercolor Painters.

Date and place of birt:25 january 1872, London, United Kingdom
Date and place of death:10 march 1945, London, United Kingdom
Period of activity: XIX, XX century
Specialization:Artist, Educator, Glass painter, Illustrator, Painter, Posterist
Art school / group:Pre-Raphaelites
Genre:Genre art, History painting, Portrait
Art style:Romanticism

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Riccardo Pellegrini (1863 - 1934)
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)
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Heinrich Hirt (1841 - 1902)
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Hans Salomon Ziegler (1798 - 1882)
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Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
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Annie Feray Mutrie (1826 - 1893)
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William Henry Hunt (1790 - 1864)
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Alexander Ivanovich Dmitriev-Mamonov (1788 - 1836)
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George Inness (1825 - 1894)
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Erich Correns (1821 - 1877)
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Antonio Ribas Oliver (1845 - 1911)
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Francois-Joseph Deutsch (1784 - 1860)
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Philip Hermogenes Calderon (1833 - 1898)
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