In A Surrey Garden Brook, near Witley by Helen Allingham is in private collection. The size of the work is 13,4 x 17,2 cm and is made as an pencil and watercolour heightened with gum arabic and with scratching out on paper.
About the Artist: British watercolourist and illustrator Helen Allingham was born at Swadlincote in Derbyshire. She enrolled in the Birmingham School of Design. At age seventeen secured a place in the Female School of Art in London. A year later in 1867 she was accepted on her first try into the prestigious Royal Academy Schools.
While studying at the National Art Training School, Paterson worked as an illustrator. She was one of the women artists who made a considerable impact, as artists like Van Gogh were influenced by her. Helen’s cottage paintings became very popular back in London. In 1886 she was invited to hold a one-woman exhibition titled Surrey Cottages by the Fine Art Society in London.
In 1890, Allingham became the first woman to be admitted as a full member of the Royal Watercolour Society. At the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois she exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts. She traveled the countryside, staying just ahead of the builders and wrecking balls, painting outdoors with a pallette of just nine colors. Read more
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