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Julia Bracewell Folkard

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Julia Bracewell Folkard
Born1849
Died1933
NationalityUnited Kingdom

Julia Bracewell Folkard (1849–1933) was a British painter.

Life

She was born in 1849 and she was a student at the Royal Academy. She repaid this 1871 when she shared a silver medal with Julia Cecilia Smith for their paintings. The gold medal that year was taken by Jessie MacGregor. It was noted how these three women revealed the silliness of the rules that excluded women from becoming full members of the Royal Academy.[1]

She became a portrait and genre painter who was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy and Suffolk Street from 1872.[2] Her painting I Showed Her the Ring and Implored Her to Marry was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[3] Folkard died in Paris.

Bracewell's painting of Mary Anne Keeley is in the National Portrait Gallery in London.[4]

Gallery

References

  1. ^ Elree I. Harris; Shirley R. Scott (26 November 2013). A Gallery of Her Own: An Annotated Bibliography of Women in Victorian Painting. Routledge. p. 22. ISBN 978-1-135-49441-4.
  2. ^ Julia Bracewell Folkard in Bénézit
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Mary Anne Keeley, NPG, Retrieved 20 March 2016