She also started drawing, despite having no money for paints or canvases, and gained permission to copy at the National Gallery
and the British Museum
. There, she learned the techniques of oil painting and...
She then attended a number of schools: a boarding establishment at Newbury in Berkshire between 1876 and 1877 (run by the Misses Godwin), a school in Paris from 1880 to 1881 (she was fluent in...
Education
Elizabeth Rigby
While in Germany, she learned German and developed an appreciation of German arts which informs her later writings. (She also taught herself Russian while living with her sister in the Baltics.)
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray.