Elsie Higgins (6 April 1871 – 1953) was a British artist and miniaturist whose works appeared on display at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Elsie Higgins | |
|---|---|
| Born | 6 April 1871 |
| Died | 1953 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Herkomer's Art School |
| Occupation(s) | artist and miniaturist |
Higgins painted portraits, landscapes and miniatures. She exhibited her paintings at the Royal Academy of Arts in London eleven times between 1895 and 1916. These paintings included "Miss Edith Gorham" in 1899, "Summer Time" in 1900, "The Rompers" in 1901,[1] and "A May Morning" in 1905. The latter is the only painting of hers currently in a British public art gallery or collection; it is in the collection of Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery.[2]
Higgins worked in Birkenhead, Cheshire (later Merseyside); Rye, Sussex; Shalford, Surrey; and Bushey, Hertfordshire between 1895 and 1916.[3] The article "Some Lady Artists of Today" in The English Illustrated Magazine of September 1907 has a photograph and description of her work.
Higgins shared a house in Bushey with Edith Gorham (1864–1941), who was also an artist and deaf-mute from birth, for over 40 years. Both Higgins and Gorham studied at Herkomer's Art School, Bushey: Higgins attended in 1893 and Gorham in 1885.[4]
References
edit- ^ The Royal Academy of Arts: a Dictionary of Contributors and Their Work from its Foundation in 1769 to 1904, Vol. 4, 1905
- ^ "A May Morning | Art UK". www.artuk.org. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
- ^ British and Irish paintings in public collections: An index of British and Irish oil paintings by artists born before 1870 in public and institutional collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland by Christopher Wright, Catherine May Gordon and Mary Peskett Smith (2006)
- ^ https://busheymuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Herkomer-Art-School-leaflet-V1.pdf [bare URL PDF]
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