Mary_Lemon_Waller

Mary Lemon Waller

Mary Lemon Waller

English painter

Mary Lemon Waller (born Mary Lemon Fowler) (1851–1931)[1] was a British portrait painter, who specialised in child portraits.

Mary Lemon Waller – Spring Voices

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Biography

Mary Lemon was born to Rev. Hugh Fowler of Burnwood, Gloucestershire.[2] She began her education in art at an Art School in Gloucester, and later studied at the Royal Academy schools.[3] Waller began exhibiting paintings as early as age 20,[4] and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1877 to 1904.[2] She married genre painter Samuel Edmund Waller in 1874; the couple lived in London and had one son.[4] Waller exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[5] In 1925, Waller became a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.[6]

Waller's works can be seen at several venues in the United Kingdom: Cragside, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and Somerville College, Oxford.[1]

Mary Lemon Waller – Portrait of Henry Clifton Sorby

Exhibitions

References

  1. [1]
    "Mary Lemon Waller (1851–1931) | Art UK". ArtUK. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  2. [2]
    Gibson, Frank W. "Waller Samuel Edmund". Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 Supplement.
  3. [3]
    Nichols, Dr. Kathleen L. "British Women Painters: 1893 Exposition—page 4". arcadiasystems.org. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
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    "Portraits In the Cutlers' Hall: On the Ground Floor, Main and Rear Stairs" (PDF). cutlers-hallamshire.org.uk. The Company of the Cutlers in Hallamshire. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 March 2017.
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    Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 30 July 2018.
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    Ltd, e3 Media. "Winifred Margaret Watson-Armstrong (1894–1912) 1230399 | National Trust Collections". www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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