| English female artists, in two volumes | |
| Author: | Ellen Creathorne Clayton |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English language |
| Genre: | Art history |
| Publisher: | Tinsley Brothers |
| Pub Date: | 1876 |
| Pages: | 369 & 331 |
| Oclc: | 608634722 |
English Female Artists, in two volumes, assembled and edited by Ellen Creathorne Clayton, lists an overview of prominent English women painters up to 1876, the year of publication.
The purpose of the book was to provide "a roll call of honorable names."[1] The book is a useful reference work for anyone studying British women's art.
The untitled review[2]
The second volume is a list of biographies of women active in the 19th century, most of whom were contemporaries whose works were known to the author. It is grouped by painting genre and includes an appendix of amateurs and women who were "Honorary Members" of the "Society of Lady Artists". The second volume also includes the index for both volumes.
Helen Allingham, Laura Alma-Tadema, Sophie Anderson, Edith Courtauld-Arendrup, Margaret Backhouse, Julia Behr, Kate Bisschop-Swift, Agnes Rose Bouvier Nicholl, Alice Boyd, Adelaide Claxton, Rebecca Coleman, Fanny Corbaux, Mary Ann Criddle, Mary Ellen Edwards, Eliza Bridell Fox, Margaret Gillies, Nellie Gosse, Catherine Hueffer (sister of Mrs. WM Rossetti), Elizabeth Jerichau, Louise Jopling, Helen Jane Arundel Miles, Elizabeth Murray, Lucy Madox Brown (Mrs. WM Rossetti), Sarah Setchel, Rebecca Solomon, Catherine Adeline Sparks, Louisa Starr, Marie Spartali-Stillman, Ellen Stone, Elizabeth Thompson, Mary S. Tovey, Eliza Turck, Augusta Walker, Henrietta, and her daughters Eva and Flora
Barbara Bodichon, Eleanor Brown, Marian Emma Chase, Marian Croft, Susan Elizabeth Gay, Mary Gow, Alice Elfrida Manly, Madeline Marrable, Anna Blunden Martino, Clara Montalba, Emma Sophia Oliver, Elizabeth Phillips, Louise, Rose, and Margaret Rayner, Frances Redgrave, Harriette Anne Seymour, Norah and Ellen Vernon, Hilda Annetta Walker, Sophie S. Warren, Linnie Watt
Maria Burt, Grace Cruickshank, Annie Dixon, Charlotte Grace Dixon, Ellen Hill, Ellen Montalba, Margaret Tekusch, Margaret Thomas
Helen Cordelia Angell, Emma Wren Cooper, May Corkling, Mary Ann Duffield, Anna Maria Fitz James, Anna Maria Guerin, Maria Harrison, Teresa Hegg de Lauderset, Florence Lewis, Agnes MacWhirter, Martha Darley Mutrie and Annie Feray Mutrie, Joanna Samworth, Susanna Soden, Eloise Harriet Stannard, Mary and Florence Vernon, Emma Walter
Hannah Bolton Barlow, Emily Desvignes, Frances C. Fairman, Katharine King, Mary Louisa Kirschner, Gertrude Jekyll, Frances Fripp Rossiter, Hilda Annetta Walker.
Georgina Bowers, Ellen Creathorne Clayton, Adelaide Claxton, Marie Duval
Elizabeth Campbell Collingridge, Emily Edwards (sister of Mrs. Sparkes), Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, Priscilla Anne, Countess of Westmorland, Marion Margaret, Viscountess Alford, Lady Anne Loftus, Eleanor Vere Boyle, Lady Duckett, Lady Dunbar, Mrs. Hugh Blackburn, Mrs. Higford Burr, Mrs. Patty Harding, Mrs. Hussey, Mrs. Frank Johnstone Mitchell, Mrs. Pfeiffer, Mrs. Harriet Olivia Boddington
Ellen Creathorne Clayton, was a female author who lived from 1834 to 1900. She was born in Dublin, Ireland and comes from a long family of engravers and artists. Ellen was a natural artist herself and had a talent for writing; she was publishing articles at the age of just fourteen. She went on to write seven books and English Female artists was her most notable novel out of the seven. Ellen Creathorne Clayton also was a prominent worker in London hence her ode to English female artists as well as she lived in London since she was just seven years old. Ellen Creathorne Clayton kept publishing under her maiden name even after her marriage to James Henry Needham. Ellen Creathorne Clayton passed away in London on July 19th, 1900.