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Mary Elizabeth Duffield-Rosenberg

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Mary Elizabeth Duffield
Born
Mary Elizabeth Rosenberg

1819
Died1914
NationalityBritish
Known forPainting
StyleFloral art
SpouseWilliam Duffield

Mary Elizabeth Duffield, née Rosenberg (1819–1914) was a British flower painter and the wife of the still life painter William Duffield.

Life and work

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Chrysanthemums (1883)

She was born in Bath as the eldest daughter of Mr. T. E. Rosenberg, and became a painter of fruit and flowers. She was a member of the Institute of Painters in Water-Colours and married the still life painter William Duffield in 1850.[1]

Duffield exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[2]

Her painting Yellow Roses was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Fagan 1888, p. 132.
  2. ^ Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  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

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