Friday, 4 September 2015

Annie and Joanna and Frances Samworth

Annie and Joanna  and Frances Elisabeth Samworth

Ann moved among the Pre-Raphaelite artist circles, exhibiting work with Holman Hunt and Barbara Bodichon [the ‘Barbara’ in the blog who was an artist and noted philanthropist who helped to found Girton College and is buried in Battle near Hastings]. 

Ann, Barbara and her children went on painting excursions to places such as the Dripping Well in Fairlight Glen on the cliffs above Hastings. 
Ann’s daughter Joanna studied with William Collingwood Smith, an outstanding teacher and Member of the Royal Water Colour Society who had a studio in Brixton in south London, and after 1851 in Paris with Henri Scheffer.

here some blogpictures found on google.
Here more about the Dutch painters Scheffer .
They were born in Dordrecht Holland and left after living in The Hague,Rotterdam and Amsterdam for Paris in 1811.This happened after the death of their father.

Amazing what you discover and forget  about all these people in your own blog.

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