English Female Artists

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English female artists, in two volumes
Ellen C, Clayton - English Female Artists - Vollume I - 1876.jpg
Author Ellen Creathorne Clayton
Language English language
Genre Art history
Publisher Tinsley Brothers
Publication date
1876
Publication place United Kingdom
Pages369 & 331
OCLC 608634722

English Female Artists, in two volumes, assembled and edited by Ellen Creathorne Clayton, lists an overview of prominent English women painters up to 1876, the year of publication.

Contents

The purpose of the book was to provide "a roll call of honorable names." [1] The book is a useful reference work for anyone studying British women's art.

Brief Overview

The untitled review [2] by Pamela Gerrish Nun, describes English Female artists as, “not the work of an art historian nor of a feminist, and is ultimately an unsatisfying and unsatisfactory work.” This is in reference to the story-like style within English Female Artists. The work of English Female Artists was published by the now extinct printing firm of the Tinsley Brothers. However, in the review by María Begoña Lasa Álvarez [3] she states that the work is a celebration of the women mentioned and all their lifelong work, the biographical and social descriptions of them within the Novel, is to illustrate all the hardships that these women overcame as an artist in a male dominated era. The novel has overall sentiments of the fight for women's rights and recognition. As well as a critique for her home country of Ireland, as she emphasizes the way English society regards its women artists in a higher light versus how Irish society regards women artists. This critique alone shows Ms. Clayton’s steps for early feminism. It is noted that in her novel, English Female Artists Ellen Creathorne Clayton refers to some of the women highlighted as “sisters.'' This shows a deeper connection between the author and her muses and can be inferred that they are a sisterhood fighting for women's rights. Overall, the novel English Female Artists is not only an ode to women artists but an early feminist novel as well.

About the Author

Ellen Creathorne Clayton, was a female author who lived from 1834 to 1900. She was born in Dublin, Ireland and comes from a long family of engravers and artists. Ellen was a natural artist herself and had a talent for writing; she was publishing articles at the age of just fourteen. She went on to write seven books and English Female artists was her most notable novel out of the seven. Ellen Creathorne Clayton also was a prominent worker in London hence her ode to English female artists as well as she lived in London since she was just seven years old. Ellen Creathorne Clayton kept publishing under her maiden name even after her marriage to James Henry Needham. Ellen Creathorne Clayton passed away in London on July 19th, 1900. [4]

Volume I (historical female artists)

Volume II (contemporary artists)

The second volume is a list of biographies of women active in the 19th century, most of whom were contemporaries whose works were known to the author. It is grouped by painting genre and includes an appendix of amateurs and women who were "Honorary Members" of the "Society of Lady Artists". The second volume also includes the index for both volumes.

Figure painters

Helen Allingham, Laura Alma-Tadema, Sophie Anderson, Edith Courtauld-Arendrup, Margaret Backhouse, Julia Behr, Kate Bisschop-Swift, Agnes Rose Bouvier Nicholl, Alice Boyd, Adelaide Claxton, Rebecca Coleman, Fanny Corbaux, Mary Ann Criddle, Mary Ellen Edwards, Eliza Bridell Fox, Margaret Gillies, Nellie Gosse, Catherine Hueffer (sister of Mrs. WM Rossetti), Elizabeth Jerichau, Louise Jopling, Helen Jane Arundel Miles, Elizabeth Murray, Lucy Madox Brown (Mrs. WM Rossetti), Sarah Setchel, Rebecca Solomon, Catherine Adeline Sparks, Louisa Starr, Marie Spartali-Stillman, Ellen Stone, Elizabeth Thompson, Mary S. Tovey, Eliza Turck, Augusta Walker, Henrietta, and her daughters Eva and Flora

Landscape painters

Barbara Bodichon, Eleanor Brown, Marian Emma Chase, Marian Croft, Susan Elizabeth Gay, Mary Gow, Alice Elfrida Manly, Madeline Marrable, Anna Blunden Martino, Clara Montalba, Emma Sophia Oliver, Elizabeth Phillips, Louise, Rose, and Margaret Rayner, Frances Redgrave, Harriette Anne Seymour, Norah and Ellen Vernon, Hilda Annetta Walker, Sophie S. Warren, Linnie Watt

Portrait and miniature painters, painters on enamel, etc.

Maria Burt, Grace Cruickshank, Annie Dixon, Charlotte Grace Dixon, Ellen Hill, Ellen Montalba, Margaret Tekusch, Margaret Thomas

Painters of flowers, fruit, and still life

Helen Cordelia Angell, Emma Wren Cooper, May Corkling, Mary Ann Duffield, Anna Maria Fitz James, Anna Maria Guerin, Maria Harrison, Teresa Hegg de Lauderset, Florence Lewis, Agnes MacWhirter, Martha Darley Mutrie and Annie Feray Mutrie, Joanna Samworth, Susanna Soden, Eloise Harriet Stannard, Mary and Florence Vernon, Emma Walter

Animal painters

Hannah Bolton Barlow, Emily Desvignes, Frances C. Fairman, Katharine King, Mary Louisa Kirschner, Gertrude Jekyll, Frances Fripp Rossiter, Hilda Annetta Walker.

Humorous designers

Georgina Bowers, Ellen Creathorne Clayton, Adelaide Claxton, Marie Duval

Decorative artists

Elizabeth Campbell Collingridge, Emily Edwards (sister of Mrs. Sparkes), Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Priscilla Anne, Countess of Westmorland, Marion Margaret, Viscountess Alford, Lady Anne Loftus, Eleanor Vere Boyle, Lady Duckett, Lady Dunbar, Mrs. Hugh Blackburn, Mrs. Higford Burr, Mrs. Patty Harding, Mrs. Hussey, Mrs. Frank Johnstone Mitchell, Mrs. Pfeiffer, Mrs. Harriet Olivia Boddington

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References

  1. Dedication page of Volume I, which is dedicated to the artist Elizabeth Thompson for her genius
  2. Nunn, Pamela Gerrish. Woman’s Art Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, 1982, pp. 57–60. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1358037. Accessed 6 May 2024.
  3. Lasa Álvarez, María Begoña (2020-02-09). "Women Artists and Activism in Ellen Clayton's "English Female Artists" (1876)". Oceánide. 12: 37–44. doi: 10.37668/oceanide.v12i.23 . ISSN   1989-6328.
  4. Clarke, Frances (2009-10-01), "Clayton, Eleanor ('Ellen') Creathorne", Dictionary of Irish Biography, Royal Irish Academy, retrieved 2024-05-08