Art-Female-Artists

Lady Mary Louisa Bruce

Artist: Bruce, Mary Louisa, Countess of Elgin and Kincardine

March 7, 2022 / ° Artists

Mary Louisa Bruce, Countess of Elgin and Kincardine was the daughter of John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham and his second wife Louisa Elizabeth Lambton, daughter of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey. She travelled to Canada twice: the first time when her father went to Canada to investigate the Lower Canada Rebellion in 29 May – 1 November 1838. She later returned to Canada with her husband, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, from 1847 to 1853.

An accomplished artist, she studied under John Richard Coke-Smyth, alongside her sister, Lady Emily Augusta, and travel companion, Katherine Ellice. She wrote and illustrated journals and diaries of her international travels.

Milly Childers

Artist: Childers, Milly

September 6, 2022 / ° Artists

Emily Maria Eardley Childers, known as Milly Childers, was an English painter of the later Victorian era and the early twentieth century. She was the daughter of Hugh Childers, a prominent Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister of his generation. Little is known about Milly Childers’s early life; she began exhibiting her art around 1890. After her father’s 1892 retirement from public service, father and daughter traveled together through England and France; Milly Childers painted landscapes and church interiors. Her father’s social and political connections brought his daughter some commissioned work, including as a restorer and copyist for Lord Halifax at Temple Newsam. Childers exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.

Eva Gonzales

Artist: Gonzales, Eva

March 7, 2022 / ° Artists

Eva Gonzales (1849 – 1883) was a French Impressionist painter. She was born in Paris and became introduced to sophisticated literary and art circles at an early age by her father, writer Emmanuel Gonzales.

In 1865, at age sixteen, Eva Gonzales began her professional training and art lessons in drawing from the society portraitist Charles Chaplin (no, not that one).

Sylvia Gosse

Artist: Gosse, Sylvia

March 7, 2022 / ° Artists

Laura Sylvia Gosse (1881 – 1968) was an English painter and printmaker. She ran an art school with the painter Walter Sickert.

Eye cataracts put an end to her painting in 1961, and she died in 1968.

Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot

Artist: Morisot, Berthe

March 7, 2022 / ° Artists

Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (1841 – 1895) was a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.

In 1864, Morisot exhibited for the first time in the highly esteemed Salon de Paris. Her work was selected for exhibition in six subsequent Salons until, in 1874, she joined the “rejected” Impressionists in the first of their own exhibitions, which included Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley.

Morisot was married to Eugene Manet, the brother of her friend and colleague Edouard Manet. Morisot died on March 2, 1895, in Paris, of pneumonia contracted while attending to her daughter Julie’s similar illness, thus making Julie an orphan at the age of 16.

Anne Rushout

Artist: Rushout, Anne

March 7, 2022 / ° Artists

One of the very few female artists we’ve been able to find that painted in Normandy. Anne Rushout is British and was a Lady. Not much else is known about her.

Rosamund Constance Talbot

Artist: Talbot, Rosamund Constance

December 6, 2022 / ° Artists

Rosamund Constance Talbot (1837 – 1906) comes from a British artistic family. Her father, William Henry Fox Talbot, was one of the inventors of photography (he invented calotype). Her mother and siblings all were painters.

Her father “invented” photography because he could not paint. Her mother, Constance Talbot, was the first woman to ever make a photo.

Milly Childers

Bayeux – The Artists – Childers, Milly

November 10, 2022 / ° Artists, Bayeux, Normandy, West

Emily Maria Eardley Childers, known as Milly Childers, was an English painter of the later Victorian era and the early twentieth century. She was the daughter of Hugh Childers, a prominent Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister of his generation. Little is known about Milly Childers’s early life; she began exhibiting her art around 1890.

After her father’s 1892 retirement from public service, father and daughter traveled together through England and France; Milly Childers painted landscapes and church interiors. Her father’s social and political connections brought his daughter some commissioned work, including as a restorer and copyist for Lord Halifax at Temple Newsam.

Here is one of her works for Arromanches, a town located close to Bayeux, Normandy.

Milly Childers

Caudebec-en-Caux – The Artists – Childers, Milly

March 13, 2022 / ° Artists, Caudebec-en-Caux, Normandy, West

Emily Maria Eardley Childers, known as Milly Childers, was an English painter of the later Victorian era and the early twentieth century.

She was the daughter of Hugh Childers, a prominent Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister of his generation. Little is known about Milly Childers’s early life; she began exhibiting her art around 1890. After her father’s 1892 retirement from public service, father and daughter traveled together through England and France; Milly Childers painted landscapes and church interiors. Her father’s social and political connections brought his daughter some commissioned work, including as a restorer and copyist for Lord Halifax at Temple Newsam. Childers exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.

We found only one of her works dealing with Caudebec-en-Caux.

Rosamund Constance Talbot

Caudebec-en-Caux – The Artists – Talbot, Rosamund Constance

December 20, 2022 / ° Artists, Caudebec-en-Caux, Normandy, West

Rosamund Constance Talbot (1837 – 1906) comes from a British artistic family. Her father, William Henry Fox Talbot, was one of the inventors of photography (he invented calotype). Her mother and siblings all were painters.

Her father “invented” photography because he could not paint. Her mother, Constance Talbot, was the first woman to ever make a photo.

Here is the 1 painting of her that we found which she made in Caudebec-en-Caux (now called Rives-en-Seine).

Lady Mary Louisa Bruce

Cherbourg – The Artists – Bruce, Mary Louisa, Countess of Elgin and Kincardine

March 7, 2022 / ° Artists, Cherbourg, Normandy, West

Mary Louisa Bruce, Countess of Elgin and Kincardine (née Lambton; 1819 – 1898) was the daughter of John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham and his second wife Louisa Elizabeth Lambton (née Grey), daughter of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey. She travelled to Canada twice: the first time when her father went to Canada to investigate the Lower Canada Rebellion in 29 May – 1 November 1838. She later returned to Canada with her husband, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, from 1847 to 1853.

An accomplished artist, she studied under John Richard Coke-Smyth, alongside her sister, Lady Emily Augusta, and travel companion, Katherine Ellice. She wrote and illustrated journals and diaries of her international travels.

We found only one of her paintings dealing with Cherbourg.

Eva Gonzales

Dieppe – The Artists – Gonzales, Eva

March 7, 2022 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

Eva Gonzales (1849 – 1883) was a French Impressionist painter. She was born in Paris and became introduced to sophisticated literary and art circles at an early age by her father, writer Emmanuel Gonzales.

Here are her works for the city of Dieppe, Normandy.

Sylvia Gosse

Dieppe – The Artists – Gosse, Sylvia

March 7, 2022 / ° Artists, Dieppe, Normandy, West

Laura Sylvia Gosse (1881 – 1968) was an English painter and printmaker. She ran an art school with the painter Walter Sickert.

Eye cataracts put an end to her painting in 1961, and she died in 1968.

She painted mostly in Dieppe, Normandy; Here are many of her works.

Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot

Fecamp – The Artists – Morisot, Berthe

April 4, 2022 / ° Artists, Fecamp, Normandy, West

Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (1841 – 1895) was a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.

In 1874, she joined the Impressionists in the first of their own exhibitions, which included Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley.

Morisot was married to Eugene Manet, the brother of her friend and colleague Edouard Manet. Morisot died on March 2, 1895, in Paris, of pneumonia.

Here is her work for Fecamp and nearby Petites-Dalles in Normandy

Milly Childers

Veules-les-Roses – The Artists – Childers, Milly

June 22, 2022 / ° Artists, Normandy, Veules-Les-Roses, West

Emily Maria Eardley Childers, aka Milly Childers, was an English painter of the later Victorian era and the early twentieth century. She was the daughter of Hugh Childers, a prominent Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister of his generation. Little is known about Milly Childers’s early life; she began exhibiting her art around 1890.

After her father’s 1892 retirement from public service, father and daughter traveled together through England and France; Milly Childers painted landscapes and church interiors. Her father’s social and political connections brought his daughter some commissioned work, including as a restorer and copyist for Lord Halifax at Temple Newsam.

Here are her paintings for Veules-les-Roses, Normandy.

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