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Cultural formation | Frances Reynolds | She was born into an English west-country professional or just-gentry family, and was a devout Anglican
, who cared about whether or not her friends went to church and disapproved of her brother Joshua painting... |
Education | Louisa Anne Meredith | Sir Thomas Lawrence
, President of the Royal Academy
, tutored Louisa Anne Twamley (later LAM
) privately in art. Rae-Ellis, Vivienne. Louisa Anne Meredith: A Tigress in Exile. St David’s Park, 1990. 33 |
Education | Mary Stewart | Eden Hall school buildings and the surrounding landscape would later inspire the setting for her novel The Ivy Tree. The school emphasized training in the social graces and MS
later commented that I learned... |
Education | Edith Craig | EC
studied music in Berlin with Alexis Holländer
and at London's Royal Academy
, aiming to become a concert pianist. Holledge, Julie. Innocent Flowers: Women in the Edwardian Theatre. Virago, 1981. 110 Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998. 37 |
Education | Sylvia Pankhurst | SP
won a national competition for a two-year scholarship to the Royal Academy of Art
in London. Her name headed the list of competitors for the whole country Mulhallen, Jacqueline. “Sylvia Pankhurst’s Paintings: A Missing Link”. Women’s History Magazine, No. 60, pp. 35 - 8. 36 Romero, Patricia W. E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical. Yale University Press, 1987. 29 |
Education | Anne Ridler | Downe House had been founded at Charles Darwin
's old home by Olive Willis
, a remarkable woman who was still headmistress, who exercised an important influence on AR
, and whose biography Ridler later... |
Education | William Blake | His apprenticeship to a print-maker included training in drawing medieval tombs. He also studied for some time at the Royal Academy of Arts
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Hamlyn, Robin, and Michael Phillips. William Blake. Tate Gallery, 2000. 26 |
Education | Charlotte Brontë | Both Charlotte and Branwell aspired to become artists. She studied drawing seriously, first with a private tutor, later at Roe Head, and after her return independently, by copying romantic illustrations from annuals such as Friendship's... |
Education | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | DGR
attended King's College School
(from 1837 to 1841), where he studied with John Sell Cotman
. He led a desultory, bohemian life until in 1847, after finding the approach of the Royal Academy
stultifying... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laurence Alma-Tadema | He had already, the previous year, exhibited at the Royal Academy
for the first time. Graves, Algernon. The Royal Academy of Art. Henry Graves and George Bell, 1906. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Cowden Clarke | MCC
's brother Joseph Alfred
(known as Alfred) set up the famous family music firm, which gave a continuing framework to the publishing projects of his father. He managed the firm until 1856. Edward Petre |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alice Meynell | AM
's sister Elizabeth
, later Lady Butler, became a well-known painter. She earned high praise for her depiction of a battle scene in The Roll Call, exhibited at the Royal Academy
in 1874... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Strutt | The paintings he exhibited at the Royal Academy
were mostly landscapes; it may not be fanciful to see the influence of his marriage in the two titles he showed (for the first time) in 1819:... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Laurence Alma-Tadema | In London he became a highly successful painter and a member of the Royal Academy
, known particularly for classical subjects handled with richly-coloured sensuous detail that suggested the seventeenth-century Dutch painters. After his death... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Power Cobbe | Lloyd was the daughter of the squire of Rhagatt in Merionethshire, Wales; a maiden aunt in the family had been a friend of the Ladies of Llangollen (Eleanor Butler
and Sarah Ponsonby
)... |