Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale

Mary Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, daughter of Matthew and Sarah Fortescue Brickdale, was born 25 January 1872 at her parents' house, Birchamp Villa in Upper Norwood, Surrey. Her father was a barrister. She was trained first at the Crystal Palace School of Art, under Herbert Bone, and entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1896. In that year she also exhibited a work at the Royal Academy, and won a prize for a design for a lunette, Spring, for the dining-room of the academy. Her first major painting was The Pale Complexion of True Love (1899). She soon began exhibiting her oil paintings at the Royal Academy, and her watercolours at the Dowdeswell Gallery, where she had several solo exhibitions. While at the academy, Fortescue-Brickdale came under the influence of John Byam Liston Shaw, a protégé of John Everett Millais much influenced by John William Waterhouse. She lived during much of her career in Holland Park Road, opposite Leighton House, where she held an exhibition in 1904. She exhibited at the first exhibition of the Society of Graphic Art in 1921. Her 1921 World War I memorial to the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry is in York Minster. She was a staunch Christian, and donated works to churches. Amongst her best known works are The Uninvited Guest and Guinevere. She died on 10 March 1945, and is buried at Brompton Cemetery, London. == Books illustrated ==

• Poems by Tennyson, 1905 • Pippa Passes by Robert Browning, 1908 • Men and Women by Browning, 1908 • Dramatis Personae by Browning, 1909 • Dramatic Romances and Lyrics by Browning, 1909 • Idylls of the King by Tennyson, 1911 • Story of St Elizabeth of Hungary by William Canton, 1912 • Book of Old English Songs and Ballads, 1915 • ''Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale's Golden Book of Famous Women'', 1919 • The Sweet and Touching Tale of Fleure and Blanchfleure, 1922 • Carols, 1925 • Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics published by Palgrave, 1925 • A Diary of an Eighteenth Century Garden, Calthorp, 1926. == Works ==

File:Love and his Counterfeits.jpg|Love and his Counterfeits, 1904 File:Brickdale, Fortescue -The Uninvited Guest -1906-.jpg| The Uninvited Guest, 1906. File:They toil not, neither do they spin.jpg|They toil not, neither do they spin File:The introduction.jpg|The introduction File:Riches Brickdale.jpg|Riches Golden book of famous women (1919) File:Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) - cover.jpg File:Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) (14777074592).jpg|Intro File:Eloisa and Abelard.jpg|Héloïse and Abelard File:Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) (14590723400).jpg|Fair Rosamund File:Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) (14777445755).jpg|Dante and Beatrice File:Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) (14590736330).jpg|Laura and Petrarca File:Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women 61.jpg|Joan of Arc File:Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) (14590743250).jpg|Catherine of Aragon File:Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) - The Queen's Marie.jpg|"Yestreen Queen Mary had four Maries, This night she'll hae but three; She had Mary Seaton, and Mary Beaton, And Mary Carmichael, and me" (Mary Hamilton) File:Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) - Una and The Red Cross Knight (p. 143).jpg|Una and The Red Cross Knight File:Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) (14797322763).jpg|Bottom and Titania File:Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) (14590815808).jpg|Rosalind and Celia File:Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) - Guinevere (p. 191).jpg|Guinevere File:Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) (14777464575).jpg|Maud is only seventeen File:Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) (14775111384).jpg|Kate Barlass File:Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) - St. Catherine of Siena (p. 239).jpg|Catherine of Siena File:Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale's Golden book of famous women (1919) (14590758180).jpg|Clare of Assisi == References ==