Hester Frood (1882–1971) was a painter and printmaker born in New Zealand. She came to England as a child of seven and was educated at Exeter School.[dubious – discuss] She studied art at Académie Colarossi in Paris. In 1906 she met artist David Young Cameron in Scotland and he taught her etching.[1]
Her mother, Mary Frood was heavily involved in the suffrage cause, and in 1913 Hester and her sister Constance carried the Topsham banner on the NUWSS Great Pilgrimage.[2]
Frood exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Scottish Academy[3] and had her first one-man show at Colnaghi in 1925.[1] Her work was also sold by James Connell & Sons, a publisher of etchings in Glasgow and London.[4]
In 1927 Frood was married to poet Frank Gwynne-Evans and they lived on The Strand Topsham, Devon.[5] Her work is in the V&A,[6] the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the British Museum.[1]
Frood died in Essex in 1971 and is buried in Topsham cemetery.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Hester Frood". The British Museum. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
- ^ Bayer, Penny (2013). Topsham's Suffragists 1911-1913. Topsham Museum Society. pp. 3–9.
- ^ "Hester Frood". www.nationalgalleries.org. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
- ^ "Connell & Sons". www.artbiogs.co.uk. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
- ^ a b "Frood, Mrs Mary, the Misses Hester and Constance". Retrieved 31 October 2022.
- ^ Museum, Victoria and Albert. "Avignon". Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections. Retrieved 31 October 2022.