Albin, Eleazar (d. 1742
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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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Helen Mary Elizabeth Allingham (1848–1926) by unknown photographer courtesy of Burgh House and Hampstead Museum
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(Alfred Charles) Stanley Anderson (1884–1966) self-portrait, 1933 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Paul Drury
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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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Kristina Huneault
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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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, 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, 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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Robert Sargent Austin (1895–1973) self-portrait, 1921 [Portrait of the Artist] © Copyright The British Museum
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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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Joseph Sharples
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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Donald L. Opitz
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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Anne Crookshank
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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Maria Luddy
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, 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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Timothy Clayton and Anita McConnell
Benazech, Peter Paul (1730
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Jan Reynolds
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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Charlotte Yeldham
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 ...
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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
