Ellen Louise Clacy Explained

Ellen Louise Clacy
Birth Date:1853
Birth Place:Onboard ship from Australia to England
Death Date:1916
Nationality:British
Occupation:Watercolorist
Mother:Ellen Clacy
Father:Charles Berry Clacy

Ellen Louise Clacy (1853–1916) was a British watercolorist. She participated numerous times with the Royal Academy throughout her career from 1870 to 1916, and her works include landscapes, scenes of rural life, and history painting. She was the daughter of travel writer Ellen Louise Clacy.

Early life

Ellen Louise Clacy was born to the author Ellen Clacy (1830–1901) in 1853 on a boat from Australia to England. Ellen Clacy Sr. (née Sturmer) married mining engineer Charles Berry Clacy in 1854 and resided in England. Beginning in the 1850s, she wrote novels, newspaper and magazine articles, and travel writing under the pseudonym Cycla. She was best known for an account of Australian gold mines A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia from 1852–1853. By 1871, she was describing herself as a widow. The younger Ellen Clacy began her career as a professional artist in the 1870s.[1]

Career

Clacy exhibited works regularly with the Royal Watercolour Society and Society of British Artists.[2] She exhibited with the Royal Academy twenty seven times from 1872 to 1900.[3] Many of her exhibited works were the results of painting excursions during which she traveled independently in the countryside. Her painting Will Myers, Ratcatcher and Poacher, shown at the Royal Academy in 1885, was painted on a trip "up North", where Clacy used a local carpenter in his shop as her model. Clacy's works of rural and northern life have been analyzed by art historian Deborah Cherry as the responses of a metropolitan tourist to an unknown place. Her travels also influenced works shown at the Liverpool Academy: The Vagrant (exhibited in 1876 with the lines: "But of the wanderer none took thought/ And where it pleased her best she sought/ Her shelter and her bread") and Wither (exhibited in 1890); both paintings depict female travelers in the countryside.[4]

In 1880, the Walker Art Gallery exhibited Flight, priced at £50[5] and called "a very charming evening landscape" by The Academy weekly review.[6] The Old Poacher (1885) was purchased by the Walker Art Gallery in 1886 from the Liverpool Autumn Exhibition for its permanent collection.[7] In 1886 Clacy also exhibited The Cry from the Snowdrift at the Royal Academy, which was reviewed as "a carefully-finished work" by Truth.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ellen Louise Clacy. At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction 1837–1901. Troy J. Bassett. 22 August 2017.
  2. Web site: Ellen Louise Clacy (1853–1916). Messum's. 24 August 2017.
  3. Book: Graves. Algernon. The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their Work from its Foundation in 1769 to 1904. 1905. Henry Graves & Co., George Bell and Sons. London. 63–64. 24 August 2017.
  4. Book: Cherry. Deborah. Painting Women: Victorian Women Artists. 1995. Routledge. London. 0-415-06053-2. 168–172. 2.
  5. Art Notes from the Provinces. The Art Journal. 1880. 19. 164. 24 August 2017.
  6. The Liverpool Autumn Exhibition. The Academy: A Weekly Review of Literature, Science, and Art. July–December 1879. 16. 254.
  7. Book: Thirty-Third Annual Report of the Committee of the Free Public Library, Museum, and Walker Art Gallery of the City of Liverpool. 1886. A. Russell, Son & Bayley. Liverpool. 24 August 2017.
  8. Another Look at the Academy. Truth. 27 May 1886. 19. 491. 810. 24 August 2017.
  9. Book: Graves. Algernon. The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their Work from its Foundation in 1769 to 1904. 1905. Henry Graves & Co., George Bell and Sons. London. 63–64. 24 August 2017.
  10. Web site: Ellen Clacy. Art UK. Public Catalogue Foundation. 24 August 2017.
  11. Web site: Ellen Louise Clacy (1853–1916). Messum's. 24 August 2017.
  12. Art Notes from the Provinces. The Art Journal. 1880. 19. 164. 24 August 2017.
  13. Book: Cherry. Deborah. Painting Women: Victorian Women Artists. 1995. Routledge. London. 0-415-06053-2. 168–172. 2.
  14. Web site: Marigold's: The China Closet, Knole. V&A Search the Collections. 13 April 1880 . Victoria and Albert Museum. 24 August 2017.
  15. Web site: Ellen Clacy. MutualArt. MutualArt Services. 24 August 2017.

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