#artist is helen allingham

[diioonysus]

by your bedside

[pintoras]

Helen Allingham (English, 1848-1926): The Proposal (1880) (via Bonhams)

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Irish Cottage, Helen Allingham (1848-1926)

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A Hill Farm, Symondsbury, Dorset  von Helen Allingham (Aquarell auf Papier)

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A Surrey Cottage 1904

Helen Allingham (1848–1926)

University of Liverpool

Allingham, Helen, 1848–1926 | Art UK

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#OTD in 1824 – Birth of poet, William Allingham, in Ballyshannon, Co Donegal.

William Allingham was a poet, diarist and editor. He wrote several volumes of lyric verse, and his poem ‘The Faeries’ was much anthologised; but he is better known for his posthumously published Diary, in which he records his lively encounters with Tennyson, Carlyle and other writers and artists. His wife, Helen Allingham, was a well-known watercolourist and illustrator. Working on an…

[fionamccall]

Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 - Tate Britain

This was an ambitious exhibition, trying to cover the variety of women's professional art over four centuries. Each artist only had 2-3 paintings, which did make it difficult to assess their work, and for some, like Louise Jopling and Laura Knight, I would have loved to see a more substantive exhibition. These were some I liked:

Joanna Mary Wells, Thou Bird of God (1861) - title taken from a Browning poem

Elizabeth Butler, Calling the Roll After an Engagement, Crimea (1874) - quite a daring feat for a woman to do a large-scale history painting on a military subject, and quite an original and moving idea for a composition.

Louise Jopling, Through the Looking Glass (1875), fascinating that she chose this title for her self-portrait, only four years after the publication of the book. Is she commenting on the role of a female artist as a kind of fantastical, unreal creature?

Helen Allingham, Feeding the Fowls (1889-90) - my Mum loved these kind of idealised paintings of the countryside - this is what I would call a Milly Molly Mandy cottage (also one of my Mum's favourite children's books) - you come across lots of them unexpectedly where I live in Hampshire.

Emma Barton, The Soul of the Rose (1910) - there were some lovely early photographs in the exhibition but they really deserved an exhibition of their own.

There were some beautiful flower paintings in the exhibition (something women were allowed to excel in) - this is by Mary Moser (1744-1819)

I failed to note down who this Victorian sculpture was by, but it is rather fine.

Laura Knight, At the Edge of the Cliff (1917) - last(ish) but not least, Laura Knight really does deserve her own exhibition, her work was so interesting, and varied throughout her lifetime, from beach scenes, to theatre, circus and ballet themes to, of course, her portraits of women workers in World War II. I love the confident pose of the girl - just the sort of pose I'm usually shown in pictures of when I was a child - if there was a pile of rocks to get to the top of or a wall to be climbed, I was there. Recently saw a picture of my Mum as a child on top of a wall, which was a surprise given her later levels of inactivity, so perhaps the genes come from her - my son is a great wall climber so he's obviously inherited them.

Finally, an extraordinary feminist image to end on, Maria Cosway (1759-1838), The Duchess of Devonshire as Cynthia.

Overall, you do get a sense from the exhibition of the ways in which women's outsider position as artists allowed them to have an original eye.

[visualpoett]

A Mother and Child Entering a Cottage (circa 1920's)

Artist: Helen Paterson Allingham

[detroitlib]

Helen Allingham (née Paterson; 26 September 1848 – 28 September 1926) 

English watercolourist and illustrator of the Victorian era. (Wikipedia)

From our stacks: Illustration ‘Every Flower a Gem.’ H. Paterson” from Gems of Deportment and Hints of Etiquette: The Ceremonials of Good Society, Including Valuable Moral, Mental, and Physical Knowledge, Original and Compiled from the Best Authorities, with Suggestions on All Matters Pertaining to the Social Code. A Manual of Instruction for the Home. By Mrs. M. L. Rayne. Detroit: Tyler & Co., and R. D. S. Tyler & Co., 1882.

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In a Surrey Garden, Brook, Near Witley, Helen Allingham, late 19th to early 20th century

Pencil and watercolor on paper 5 ¼ x 6 ¾ in. (13.4 x 17.2 cm)

[diioonysus]

art aesthetics: cottagecore

[pintoras]

Helen Allingham (English, 1848-1926): Summer meadow (via Bonhams)

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Helen Allingham – The Staircase, Whittington Court, Gloucestershire – l276 Helen Allingham - The Staircase, Whittington Court, Gloucestershire.

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San Marco, Venice,  Helen Allingham, 1921

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Helen Allingham

Helen Allingham (c.1901) When depicting life in rural England, artists had to decide whether their depictions would focus on the hard lives endured by the peasant workers or focus on the beautiful idyllic life folk had who managed to escape the industrialization of the cities.  The artist I am looking at today was of the second group of painters who wanted to cast her artistic spotlight on the…

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1824 – Birth of poet, William Allingham, in Ballyshannon, Co Donegal.

William Allingham was a poet, diarist and editor. He wrote several volumes of lyric verse, and his poem ‘The Faeries’ was much anthologised; but he is better known for his posthumously published Diary, in which he records his lively encounters with Tennyson, Carlyle and other writers and artists. His wife, Helen Allingham, was a well-known watercolourist and illustrator. Working on an…