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Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
Fortescue-Brickdale, c. 1900
Born25 January 1872
Upper Norwood, Surrey, England
Died10 March 1945(1945-03-10) (aged 73)
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
  • Royal Academy Schools
  • Known forPainting

    Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (25 January 1872 – 10 March 1945) was a British artist. She produced paintings, book illustrations, and a number of works in stained glass.

    Life[edit]

    Mary Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, daughter of Matthew and Sarah Fortescue Brickdale, was born 25 January 1872 at her parents' house, Birchamp Villa in Upper Norwood, Surrey.[1] Her father was a barrister. She was trained first at the Crystal Palace School of Art, under Herbert Bone and entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1896. In that year she also exhibited a work at the Royal Academy, RA, and won a prize for designing a lunette, Spring for the RA Dining Room.[2] Her first major painting was The Pale Complexion of True Love (1899). She soon began exhibiting her oil paintings at the Royal Academy, and her watercolours at the Dowdeswell Gallery, where she had several solo exhibitions.[3]

    While at the academy, Fortescue-Brickdale came under the influence of John Byam Liston Shaw, a protégé of John Everett Millais much influenced by John William Waterhouse.[3] When Byam Shaw founded his art school in 1911, Fortescue-Brickdale became a teacher there.

    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 Leighton House, where she held an exhibition in 1904.[3]

    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[edit]

    Works[edit]

    Golden book of famous women (1919)[edit]

    See also[edit]

    References[edit]

    1. ^ "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Reference Entry at Oxford University's Index. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. pp. ref:odnb/55176. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/55176. Retrieved 26 July 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  • ^ a b Christopher Wood (1978). The Dictionary of Victorian Painters. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 0-902028-72-3.
  • ^ a b c d Lupack, Barbara Tepa; Lupack, Alan (2008). Illustrating Camelot. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 126–8. 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.
  • ^ "Obituary. Times [London, England] 14 Mar. 1945: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 30 Aug. 2013.
  • ^ "Notable Monuments". The Friends of Brompton Cemetery. Archived from the original on 13 October 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
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