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[[File:Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale.jpg|thumb|167px|Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, c. 1900]]
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'''Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale''' (1871 – 10 March 1945) was an English artist.
'''Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale''' (25 January 1872 – 10 March 1945) was a British artist. She produced paintings, book illustrations, and a number of works in stained glass.


==Life==
== Life ==
Fortescue-Brickdale was born in [[Upper Norwood]], Surrey as Mary Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale the daughter of Matthew and Sarah Fortescue Brickdale, her father was a barrister. She was trained first at the [[Crystal Palace School|Crystal Palace School of Art]], under Herbert Bone and entered the Royal Academy in 1896. Her first major painting was ''The Pale Complexion of True Love ''(1899). She soon began exhibiting her oil paintings at the Royal Academy, and her watercolours at the Dowdeswell Gallery, where she had several solo exhibitions.<ref name=lupack>{{cite book|title=Illustrating Camelot |first1=Barbara Tepa |last1=Lupack| first2= Alan |last2=Lupack|pages=126–8|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|year=2008|isbn=978-1-84384-183-8}}</ref>


Mary Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, daughter of Matthew and Sarah Fortescue Brickdale, was born 25 January 1872 at her parents' house, Birchamp Villa in [[Upper Norwood]], Surrey.<ref>{{cite ODNB|url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/55176|title=Reference Entry at Oxford University's Index|chapter=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |year=2004 |pages=ref:odnb/55176 |access-date=26 July 2017|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/55176}}</ref> Her father was a barrister. She was trained first at the [[Crystal Palace School of Art]], under Herbert Bone and entered the [[Royal Academy Schools]] in 1896. In that year she also exhibited a work at the Royal Academy, RA, and won a prize for designing a [[lunette]], ''Spring'' for the RA Dining Room.<ref name="CWood">{{cite book|author=Christopher Wood|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1978|title=The Dictionary of Victorian Painters |isbn=0-902028-72-3}}</ref> Her first major painting was ''The Pale Complexion of True Love ''(1899). She soon began exhibiting her oil paintings at the Royal Academy, and her watercolours at the Dowdeswell Gallery, where she had several solo exhibitions.<ref name=lupack>{{cite book|title=Illustrating Camelot |first1=Barbara Tepa |last1=Lupack| first2= Alan |last2=Lupack|pages=126–8|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|year=2008|isbn=978-1-84384-183-8}}</ref>
While at the academy, she came under the influence of [[John Byam Liston Shaw]], a protégé of [[John Everett Millais]] much influenced by [[John William Waterhouse]].<ref name=lupack/> When Byam Shaw founded [[Byam Shaw School of Art|an art school]] in 1911, Fortescue-Brickdale became a teacher there.


While at the academy, Fortescue-Brickdale came under the influence of [[John Byam Liston Shaw]], a protégé of [[John Everett Millais]] much influenced by [[John William Waterhouse]].<ref name=lupack/> When Byam Shaw founded his [[Byam Shaw School of Art|art school]] in 1911, Fortescue-Brickdale became a teacher there.
In 1909, Ernest Brown, of the [[Leicester Galleries]], commissioned a series of 28 watercolour illustrations to [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson|Tennyson]]'s ''[[Idylls of the King]]'', which she painted over two years. They were exhibited in the gallery in 1911, and 24 of them were published the next year in a deluxe edition of the first four ''Idylls'' <ref name=lupack/>

In 1909, Ernest Brown, of the [[Leicester Galleries]], commissioned a series of 28 watercolour illustrations to [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson|Tennyson]]'s ''[[Idylls of the King]]'', which Fortescue-Brickdale painted over two years. They were exhibited at the gallery in 1911, and 24 of them were published the following year in a deluxe edition of the first four ''Idylls''.<ref name=lupack/>


She lived during much of her career in Holland Park Road, opposite [[Leighton House]], where she held an exhibition in 1904.<ref name=lupack/>
She lived during much of her career in Holland Park Road, opposite [[Leighton House]], where she held an exhibition in 1904.<ref name=lupack/>


Fortescue-Brickdale exhibited at the first exhibition of the [[Society of Graphic Art]] in 1921.<ref>{{Citation | title = List of Members | journal = Catalogue of the First Annual Exhibition of the Society of Graphic Art | pages = 45–48 | publisher = Society of Graphic Art | location = London | date = January 1921 }}</ref> Her 1921 World War I memorial to the [[King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry]] is in [[York Minster]].<ref name="HE1257222">{{NHLE|num=1257222 |desc=Cathedral Church of St Peter, York Minster|access-date=24 May 2021}}</ref>
Later, she also worked with [[stained glass]]. She was a staunch Christian, and donated works to churches. Amongst her best known works are ''The Uninvited Guest'' and ''Guinevere''. She died on 10 March 1945,<ref name=marsh>{{cite book |title=Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists |authors=Jan Marsh and Pamela Gerrish Nunn |year=1997}}</ref><ref name=" A Pre-Raphaelite Journey/ author=Pamela Gerrish Nunn/ year=2012. name="obit">"Obituary. Times [London, England] 14 Mar. 1945: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 30 Aug. 2013.</ref> and is buried at [[Brompton Cemetery]], London.<ref>http://brompton-cemetery.org.uk/notable-monuments/</ref>

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Later, she also worked with [[stained glass]]. She was a staunch Christian, and donated works to churches. Amongst her best known works are ''The Uninvited Guest'' and ''Guinevere''. She died on 10 March 1945,<ref name=marsh>{{cite book |title=Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists |author=Jan Marsh |author2=Pamela Gerrish Nunn |name-list-style=amp |year=1997}}</ref><ref name=" A Pre-Raphaelite Journey/ author=Pamela Gerrish Nunn/ year=2012. name=obit">"Obituary. Times [London, England] 14 Mar. 1945: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 30 Aug. 2013.</ref> and is buried at [[Brompton Cemetery]], London.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://brompton-cemetery.org.uk/notable-monuments/ |title=Notable Monuments|website=The Friends of Brompton Cemetery |access-date=14 April 2020 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013000433/http://brompton-cemetery.org.uk/notable-monuments/ |archive-date=13 October 2016}}</ref>
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==Books illustrated==
* ''Poems by [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson|Tennyson]]'', 1905
* ''Pippa Passes'' by [[Robert Browning]], 1908
* ''Men and Women'' by Browning, 1908
* ''Dramatis Personae'' by Browning, 1909
* ''Dramatic Romances and Lyrics'' by Browning, 1909
* ''Idylls of the King'' by Tennyson, 1911
* ''Story of St Elizabeth of Hungary'' by WM Canton, 1912
* ''Book of Ols English Songs and Ballaids'' by WM Canton, 1915
* ''Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale's Golden Book of Famous Women'', 1919
* ''The Sweet and Touching Tale of Fleure and Blanchfleure'', 1922
* ''Carols'', 1925
* ''Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics'' published by [[Palgrave Macmillan|Palgrave]], 1925
* ''A Diary of an Eighteenth Century Garden'', Calthorp, 1926.<ref name="CWood"/>


==Works==
==Works==
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File:Love and his Counterfeits.jpg|''Love and his Counterfeits'', 1904
File:Brickdale, Fortescue -The Uninvited Guest -1906-.jpg| ''The Uninvited Guest'', 1906.
File:Brickdale, Fortescue -The Uninvited Guest -1906-.jpg| ''The Uninvited Guest'', 1906.
File:They toil not, neither do they spin.jpg|They toil not, neither do they spin
File:They toil not, neither do they spin.jpg|They toil not, neither do they spin
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</gallery>
</gallery>


=== Golden book of famous women (1919)===
==See also==
<gallery mode="packed" heights="145px" caption="">
File:Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) - cover.jpg
File:Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) (14777074592).jpg|Intro
File:Eloisa and Abelard.jpg|[[Héloïse]] and [[Abelard]]
File:Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) (14590723400).jpg|[[Fair Rosamund]]
File:Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) (14777445755).jpg|[[Dante]] and [[Beatrice Portinari|Beatrice]]
File:Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) (14590736330).jpg|[[Laura de Noves|Laura]] and [[Petrarca]]
File:Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women 61.jpg|[[Joan of Arc]]
File:Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) (14590743250).jpg|[[Catherine of Aragon]]
File:Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) - The Queen's Marie.jpg|"Yestreen Queen Mary had four Maries, This night she'll hae but three; She had [[Mary Seton|Mary Seaton]], and [[Mary Beaton]], And Mary Carmichael, and me" ([[Mary Hamilton]])
File:Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) - Una and The Red Cross Knight (p. 143).jpg|[[The Faerie Queene|Una and The Red Cross Knight]]
File:Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) (14797322763).jpg|[[Nick Bottom|Bottom]] and [[Titania (A Midsummer Night's Dream)|Titania]]
File:Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) (14590815808).jpg|[[Rosalind (As You Like It)|Rosalind]] and [[Celia (As You Like It)|Celia]]
File:Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) - Guinevere (p. 191).jpg|[[Guinevere]]
File:Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) (14777464575).jpg|[[Maud and other poems|Maud is only seventeen]]
File:Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) (14775111384).jpg|[[Catherine Douglas|Kate Barlass]]
File:Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) - St. Catherine of Siena (p. 239).jpg|[[Catherine of Siena]]
File:Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) (14590758180).jpg|[[Clare of Assisi]]
</gallery>


==See also==
* [[Women artists]]
* [[Women artists]]


==References==
==References==
{{Reflist}} 4. Pamela Gerrish Nunn (2012). ''A Pre-Raphaelite Journey''.
{{Reflist}}
* Pamela Gerrish Nunn (2012). ''A Pre-Raphaelite Journey''.


==External links==
==External links==
{{Commons category}}
{{Commons category}}
* {{ArtUK bio}}
* {{Gutenberg author | id=Fortescue-Brickdale,+Eleanor | name=Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale}}
* {{Gutenberg author | id=39442| name=Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale}}
*[http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/fortescue-brickdale_eleanor.html E. Fortescue-Brickdale online] (ArtCyclopedia)
*[http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/illus/brikdale.htm Biography]
*[http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artist.php?artistid=166 Paintings by E. Fortescue-Brickdale] (Art Renewal Center)
*[http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artist.php?artistid=166 Paintings by E. Fortescue-Brickdale] (Art Renewal Center)
*[http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/flaming.html#brickdale Paintings by E. Fortescue-Brickdale] (Pre-Raphaelite Women)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20051230153211/http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/flaming.html#brickdale Paintings by E. Fortescue-Brickdale] (Pre-Raphaelite Women)
*[http://www.celtic-twilight.com/camelot/art/fbrickdale/index.htm E. Fortescue-Brickdale - short biography and works] ("Celtic Twilight")
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231300/http://www.celtic-twilight.com/camelot/art/fbrickdale/index.htm E. Fortescue-Brickdale - short biography and works] ("Celtic Twilight")
*[http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/picture-of-month/displaypicture.asp?venue=7&id=126 The Forerunner] (1920 painting)
*''[https://archive.org/details/eleanorfortesque00fort Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden Book of Famous Women]'', London, New York, Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919.
*''[https://archive.org/details/eleanorfortesque00fort Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden Book of Famous Women]'', London, New York, Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919.


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Latest revision as of 20:28, 2 July 2024

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
Fortescue-Brickdale, c. 1900
Born25 January 1872
Upper Norwood, Surrey, England
Died10 March 1945(1945-03-10) (aged 73)
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
Known forPainting

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (25 January 1872 – 10 March 1945) was a British artist. She produced paintings, book illustrations, and a number of works in stained glass.

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Mary Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, daughter of Matthew and Sarah Fortescue Brickdale, was born 25 January 1872 at her parents' house, Birchamp Villa in Upper Norwood, Surrey.[1] Her father was a barrister. She was trained first at the Crystal Palace School of Art, under Herbert Bone and entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1896. In that year she also exhibited a work at the Royal Academy, RA, and won a prize for designing a lunette, Spring for the RA Dining Room.[2] Her first major painting was The Pale Complexion of True Love (1899). She soon began exhibiting her oil paintings at the Royal Academy, and her watercolours at the Dowdeswell Gallery, where she had several solo exhibitions.[3]

While at the academy, Fortescue-Brickdale came under the influence of John Byam Liston Shaw, a protégé of John Everett Millais much influenced by John William Waterhouse.[3] When Byam Shaw founded his art school in 1911, Fortescue-Brickdale became a teacher there.

In 1909, Ernest Brown, of the Leicester Galleries, commissioned a series of 28 watercolour illustrations to Tennyson's Idylls of the King, which Fortescue-Brickdale painted over two years. They were exhibited at the gallery in 1911, and 24 of them were published the following year in a deluxe edition of the first four Idylls.[3]

She lived during much of her career in Holland Park Road, opposite Leighton House, where she held an exhibition in 1904.[3]

Fortescue-Brickdale exhibited at the first exhibition of the Society of Graphic Art in 1921.[4] Her 1921 World War I memorial to the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry is in York Minster.[5]

Later, she also worked with stained glass. She was a staunch Christian, and donated works to churches. Amongst her best known works are The Uninvited Guest and Guinevere. She died on 10 March 1945,[6][7] and is buried at Brompton Cemetery, London.[8]

Books illustrated

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  • Poems by Tennyson, 1905
  • Pippa Passes by Robert Browning, 1908
  • Men and Women by Browning, 1908
  • Dramatis Personae by Browning, 1909
  • Dramatic Romances and Lyrics by Browning, 1909
  • Idylls of the King by Tennyson, 1911
  • Story of St Elizabeth of Hungary by WM Canton, 1912
  • Book of Ols English Songs and Ballaids by WM Canton, 1915
  • Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale's Golden Book of Famous Women, 1919
  • The Sweet and Touching Tale of Fleure and Blanchfleure, 1922
  • Carols, 1925
  • Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics published by Palgrave, 1925
  • A Diary of an Eighteenth Century Garden, Calthorp, 1926.[2]

Works

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  • Love and his Counterfeits, 1904
    Love and his Counterfeits, 1904
  • The Uninvited Guest, 1906.
    The Uninvited Guest, 1906.
  • They toil not, neither do they spin
    They toil not, neither do they spin
  • The introduction
    The introduction
  • Riches
    Riches

Golden book of famous women (1919)

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Reference Entry at Oxford University's Index. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. pp. ref:odnb/55176. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/55176. Retrieved 26 July 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ a b Christopher Wood (1978). The Dictionary of Victorian Painters. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 0-902028-72-3.
  3. ^ a b c d Lupack, Barbara Tepa; Lupack, Alan (2008). Illustrating Camelot. Boydell & Brewer. pp. 126–8. ISBN 978-1-84384-183-8.
  4. ^ "List of Members", Catalogue of the First Annual Exhibition of the Society of Graphic Art, London: Society of Graphic Art: 45–48, January 1921
  5. ^ Historic England. "Cathedral Church of St Peter, York Minster (1257222)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
  6. ^ Jan Marsh & Pamela Gerrish Nunn (1997). Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists.
  7. ^ "Obituary. Times [London, England] 14 Mar. 1945: 7. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 30 Aug. 2013.
  8. ^ "Notable Monuments". The Friends of Brompton Cemetery. Archived from the original on 13 October 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  • Pamela Gerrish Nunn (2012). A Pre-Raphaelite Journey.
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