Ellen Gertrude Cohen Explained

Ellen Gertrude Cohen
Birth Date:25 August 1860
Birth Place:Marylebone, London
Death Date:4 May 1946 (aged 85)[1]
Death Place:Rome, Italy
Education:Slade School of Art, Royal Academy of London
Field:Painting, Illustration

Ellen Gertrude Cohen (25 August 1860 – 4 May 1946) was a British painter and illustrator.

Biography

Cohen was born in 1860 in Marylebone to Barnet Soloman Cohen, a merchant, and Eliza Myers Cohen.[2] She attended the Slade School of Art and the Royal Academy of London. She also studied in Paris under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens.[3]

She exhibited her work at the Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Painters in Water and Oil Colors, and the Paris Salon.[3] [4]

Cohen exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[5]

Cohn created illustrations for a variety of British publications including The Strand Magazine.[3]

Cohen died in Rome in 1946, where she was living at a Franciscan convent.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995
  2. 1861 England Census
  3. Web site: Jacobs . Joseph . Lipkind . Goodman . Cohen, Ellen Gertrude . www.jewishencyclopedia.com . 15 August 2018.
  4. Book: Darmon . Adrian M. . Around Jewish Art: A Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, and Photographers . 2003 . Carnot . 2848550112 . 48 . fr.
  5. Web site: Nichols . K. L. . Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893. 15 August 2018.