Helen Cordelia Angell
Helen Cordelia Angell | |
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| Born | 1847 |
| Died | 8 March 1884 |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
Helen Cordelia Angell, née Coleman (1847 – 1884) was an English watercolour painter.[1]
She and her sister, the pottery artist Rose Rebecca Coleman first learned painting and drawing from their brother William Stephen Coleman, who kept an art pottery studio in South Kensington.[1] She was a member of both the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, who awarded her a membership in 1875.[1][2]
She was Flower Painter in Ordinary to Queen Victoria from 1879 until her death. Her painting Study of a bird's nest was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[3]
References
- ^ a b c Huneault, Kristina (2004). "Angell [née Coleman], Helen Cordelia (1847–1884)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/57879. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Archive of members on website of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours
- ^ Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905
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