Blanche Jenkins
Blanche Jenkins (active 1872–1915) was a British portrait painter.[1]
Life
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Jenkins was active as an exhibitor at the Society of British Artists and at the Royal Academy, where she showed some 49 works from 1872 onwards.[2] She was also a member of the Society of Lady Artists.[3] She exhibited her work at the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[4]
Her painting Her Morning Ride was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[5]
She died in 1915 and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery with her father George (d.1871) and her sister Emma (d.1904).
Gallery
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Portrait of a child -
Cupid with roses -
Miss Georgie
References
[edit]- ^ "Blanche Jenkins". RKD. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
- ^ Brian Stewart; Mervyn Cutten (1997). The Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-173-2.
- ^ "Jenkins, Blanche". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Index. 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00094679. Archived from the original on 1 June 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
- ^ Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 11 December 2018.
- ^ Sparrow, Walter Shaw (1905). Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
- Catalogue of an exhibition of pictures by Miss Blanche Jenkins., London : Doré Gallery
External links
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Media related to Blanche Jenkins at Wikimedia Commons- images of Jenkins's paintings on ArtNet
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