Ethel Angell

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Ethel Angell
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Ethel Angell from a 1931 newspaper article
Born
Ethel Elizabeth Angell

(1889-07-22)22 July 1889
Abbots Ripton, Cambridgeshire
Died31 January 1972(1972-01-31) (aged 82)
Coventry, Warwickshire
NationalityEnglish
OccupationArtist

Ethel Angell (22 July 1889 - 31 January 1972) was an English flower and landscape artist [1] and teacher. [2] She had paintings accepted into the 1931 and 1946 Royal Academy of Arts exhibition. [3]

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Ethel was the oldest of five children born to Eliza and Thomas Angell, a coach trimmer. She taught at Ansley School and lived at Ansley Common Warwickshire. [4] She was living at Hartshill when she died in 1972. [5]

Painting career

Angell studied painting in Bath, Somerset with Alfred Jones (1851-1928) and then with John Anthony Park, ROI, RBA (1880-1962) at the Nuneaton Art School. [6]

In 1931 she had a painting Zinnias, [7] painted while on holiday in Brittany, accepted into the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) exhibition. It was the first time she had submitted her work to be considered. [8] Of her success she said, “I consider myself very lucky, considering the thousands sent from all parts of the world by artists who do nothing else.” [9] She had a subsequent painting, The Harbour at High Tide, [10] accepted for the 1946 RA exhibition. [11]

She exhibited with the Coventry and Warwickshire Society of Artists (CWSA) in 1930 [12] and 1931. [13] She had four paintings, including At Midday and Leafy Warwickshire in the Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery in 1947. [14] She also exhibited with the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI). [15]

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