Blanche Jenkins Explained

Blanche Jenkins (active 1872–1915) was a British portrait painter.^[1]

Life

Jenkins was active as an exhibitor at the Society of British Artists and at the Royal Academy, where she showed some 49 works from 1872 onwards.^[2] She was also a member of the Society of Lady Artists.^[3] She exhibited her work at the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.^[4]

Her painting Her Morning Ride was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.^[5]

She died in 1915 and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery with her father George (d.1871) and her sister Emma (d.1904).

Catalogue of an exhibition of pictures by Miss Blanche Jenkins., London : Doré Gallery

Web site: Blanche Jenkins . RKD . 11 December 2018 . en.
Book: Brian Stewart . Mervyn Cutten . Antique Collectors' Club. 1997. The Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920. 1-85149-173-2.
Web site: Jenkins, Blanche . Benezit Dictionary of Artists . 2011 . Oxford Index . 11 December 2018 . en . 10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00094679 . 1 June 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190601091537/https://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00094679 . dead .
Web site: Nichols . K. L. . Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893. 11 December 2018.
Book: Sparrow . Walter Shaw . Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day . 1905 . Hodder & Stoughton . London . English.