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Albin, Eleazar (d. 1742?), naturalist and watercolour painter  

Peter Osborne

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Albin, Eleazar (d. 1742?), naturalist and watercolour painter, may have been born somewhere in the German states to a family named Weiss. Nothing is known of his early life, although he later claimed, in his Natural History of Birds (1731–8), to have been '...

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Allingham [née Paterson], Helen Mary Elizabeth (1848–1926), watercolour painter  

Ina Taylor

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Allingham [née Paterson], Helen Mary Elizabeth (1848–1926), watercolour painter, was born on 26 September 1848 at Swadlincote, Derbyshire, the eldest of the seven children (three boys and four girls) of Alexander Henry Paterson (1825–1862), medical practitioner and surgeon, and his wife, Mary Chance Herford (1824–1894)...

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Allingham, Helen Mary Elizabeth (1848–1926)  

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Helen Mary Elizabeth Allingham (1848–1926) by unknown photographer courtesy of Burgh House and Hampstead Museum

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Anderson, (Alfred Charles) Stanley (1884–1966), printmaker and watercolour painter  

Paul Drury

revised by Ian Lowe

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Anderson, (Alfred Charles) Stanley (1884–1966), printmaker and watercolour painter, was born on 11 May 1884 at 11 North Road, Bristol, the son of Alfred Ernest Anderson (1859–1939), of Heavitree, Devon, who started his own business as a skilled general and heraldic engraver, and his wife, ...

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Anderson, (Alfred Charles) Stanley (1884–1966)  

Maker: (Alfred Charles) Stanley Anderson

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(Alfred Charles) Stanley Anderson (1884–1966) self-portrait, 1933 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Angell [née Coleman], Helen Cordelia (1847–1884), watercolour painter  

Kristina Huneault

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Angell [née Coleman], Helen Cordelia (1847–1884), watercolour painter, was born in January 1847 at Horsham in Sussex, the fifth daughter in a family of twelve children born to William Thomas Coleman, a physician, and his wife, Henrietta Dendy. Despite her father's lack of sympathy for the visual arts, ...

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Annesley, Lady Mabel Marguerite (1881–1959)  

Maker: Lafayette

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Lady Mabel Marguerite Annesley (1881–1959) by Lafayette, 1898 [detail] V&A Images, The Victoria and Albert Museum

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Annesley, Lady Mabel Marguerite (1881–1959), wood-engraver and watercolour painter  

Joanna Selborne

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Annesley, Lady Mabel Marguerite (1881–1959), wood-engraver and watercolour painter, was born on 25 February 1881, at Annesley Lodge, Regent's Park, London, the daughter of Hugh Annesley, fifth Earl Annesley (1831–1908), lieutenant-colonel in the Scots Fusilier Guards and landowner, and his wife, Mabel Wilhelmina Frances Markham, ...

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Archer, John Wykeham (1806–1864), printmaker and watercolour painter  

Lucy Peltz

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Archer, John Wykeham (1806–1864), printmaker and watercolour painter, was born on 2 August 1806 in Newcastle upon Tyne, the eldest son and second of four known children of John Archer, a hairdresser described as a 'respectable and prosperous tradesman of that town...

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Austin, Robert Sargent (1895–1973), engraver and watercolour painter  

Peter Black

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Austin, Robert Sargent (1895–1973), engraver and watercolour painter, was born on 23 June 1895 at 14 Magazine Square, Leicester, the eldest of the three children of >Robert Henry Percy Slade Austin (1869–1947), a cabinet-maker, and his wife, Elizabeth, née Smith (...

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Austin, Robert Sargent (1895–1973)  

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Robert Sargent Austin (1895–1973) self-portrait, 1921 [Portrait of the Artist] © Copyright The British Museum

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Austin, Samuel (1796–1834), watercolour painter  

Joseph Sharples

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Austin, Samuel (1796–1834), watercolour painter, was probably born on 30 September 1796, and baptized on 23 October at the Mount Pleasant Wesleyan Chapel, Liverpool, the son of Samuel Austin and his wife, Mary Maybrick. His early years are obscure. He attended the Liverpool Blue Coat School...

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Balfour, Alice Blanche (1850–1936), entomologist, watercolourist, and political hostess  

Donald L. Opitz

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Balfour, Alice Blanche (1850–1936), entomologist, watercolourist, and political hostess, was born at Queen Street, Edinburgh, on 20 October 1850, the youngest daughter of James Maitland Balfour (1820–1856), landowner, Conservative MP for Haddington (1841–7), and chairman of the North British Railway Company...

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Barralet, John James (1747–1815), watercolour painter  

Anne Crookshank

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Barralet, John James (1747–1815), watercolour painter, was born in Dublin, and came of a French family. He was educated under James Mannin in the Dublin Society Schools, where he was awarded a premium in 1764. He specialized in landscapes, producing prosaic works with no hint of drama, although the trees are particularly well executed. However, his forte was undoubtedly the figures who people many of his works and give a lively immediacy to his watercolours. He worked in ...

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Barton, Rose (1856–1929), watercolour painter  

Maria Luddy

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Barton, Rose (1856–1929), watercolour painter, was born at Rochestown, co. Tipperary, on 21 April 1856, the second daughter of Augustine Barton (d. 1874), solicitor. She was of the Anglo-Irish gentry, educated privately, and presented at Dublin Castle in 1872. She first exhibited in ...

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Baynes, James (1766–1837), watercolour painter and drawing-master  

Huon Mallalieu

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Baynes, James (1766–1837), watercolour painter and drawing-master, was born at Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmorland, in April 1766. According to Samuel Redgrave, his education was paid for by a friend, but this assistance apparently ceased on his marriage. A pupil of George Romney, he entered the ...

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Benazech, Peter Paul (1730?–1798), engraver and watercolour painter  

Timothy Clayton and Anita McConnell

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Benazech, Peter Paul (1730?–1798), engraver and watercolour painter, is said to have been born in England. In 1746 he was apprenticed to the landscape engraver Francis Vivares for £20, and he continued to work for Vivares after the expiration of his apprenticeship, producing, for instance, two views of ...

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Bentley, Charles (1805/6–1854), watercolour painter  

Jan Reynolds

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Bentley, Charles (1805/6–1854), watercolour painter, was born in Tottenham Court Road, London, the son of a master carpenter; he may possibly be identified with Charles, the son of Thomas and Mary Bentley, baptized at St James's, Paddington, on 24 August 1806. He was apprenticed to the engraver ...

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Beresford, Louisa Anne, marchioness of Waterford (1818–1891)  

Maker: Sir Francis Grant

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Louisa Anne Beresford, marchioness of Waterford (1818–1891) by Sir Francis Grant, 1842 private collection. Photograph: Photographic Survey, Courtauld Institute of Art, London

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Beresford [née Stuart], Louisa Anne, marchioness of Waterford (1818–1891), watercolour painter and philanthropist  

Charlotte Yeldham

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Beresford [née Stuart], Louisa Anne, marchioness of Waterford (1818–1891), watercolour painter and philanthropist, was born on 14 April 1818 at the Hôtel Charost, Faubourg St Honoré, Paris, the second daughter of Sir Charles Stuart, later Baron Stuart de Rothesay (1779–1845), diplomatist. Her paternal grandfather was ...