Keturah Anne Collings | |
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Born | Keturah Anne Beedle 1862 Weston-super-Mare, England |
Died | 1948 (aged 85–86) London, England |
Nationality | British |
Known for | Painting, Photography |
Spouse | Arthur Albert Esme Collings (m. 1887;died 1936) |
Keturah Anne Collings (1862-1948) was a British painter and photographer. [1]
Collings née Beedle was born in 1862 in Weston-super-Mare, England. She started her artistic career as a portrait artist and miniaturist. [2] In 1887 she married Arthur Albert Esme Collings (1859-1936). During the late 1900s she assisted her husband at his photography studio in Brighton and Hove before opening her own London photographic studio in the early 1900s. [3]
Collings worked creating portraits, both painted and photographic, until her death in 1948 in London. [3] Her work is in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, London (as Keturah Ann Collings) [4] and the Tate Gallery (as Keturah Collings). [5]
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