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Charlotte Blakeney Ward

Charlotte Blakeney Ward

English artist

Charlotte Blakeney Ward (1873–1962) was an English artist, best known as a portrait painter. She worked in several media and genres, and is known to have exhibited between 1898 and 1939.[1]

She was born in Eccles, Lancashire, the daughter of the journalist James Blakeney, a journalist. She was educated privately at home, and later studied at the Royal College of Art.[2] She also studied in Paris, and exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1900.[3]

She married a fellow portrait artist, Charles Daniel Ward.[4][5] Her portrait subjects included the suffragist Mary Collin, the poet Robinson Jeffers, and several members of the nobility. Her work was exhibited at the Royal Academy.[4]

In 1923 she became President of the Society of Women Artists, having been vice-president since 1917, and held the presidency until 1931.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    Dennis Child (2002). Painters in the Northern Counties of England and Wales. Dennis Child. p. 324. ISBN 978-0-9523247-1-3.
  2. [2]
    "Ward, Charlotte Blakeney". Artist Biographies. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
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    "Charlotte Blakeney Ward". Cornwall Artists. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  4. [4]
    Sara Gray (25 June 2009). The Dictionary of British Women Artists. Lutterworth Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-7188-4003-7.
  5. [5]
    David Cuppleditch (1994). The London Sketch Club. Alan Sutton. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-7509-0696-8.
  6. [6]
    Marion Whybrow (1994). St Ives, 1883–1993: Portrait of an Art Colony. Antique Collectors' Club. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-85149-170-4.
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