Blanche Jenkins

Blanche Jenkins (active 1872–1915) was a British portrait painter.[1]

Life

Grave of Blanche Jenkins in Highgate Cemetery

Jenkins was active as an exhibitor at the Society of British Artists and at the Royal Academy, where she showed some 49 works from 1872 onwards.[2] She was also a member of the Society of Lady Artists.[3] She exhibited her work at the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[4]

Her painting Her Morning Ride was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[5]

She died in 1915 and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery with her father George (d.1871) and her sister Emma (d.1904).

  • Portrait of a child
    Portrait of a child
  • Cupid with roses
    Cupid with roses
  • Miss Georgie
    Miss Georgie

References

  1. ^ "Blanche Jenkins". RKD. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  2. ^ Brian Stewart; Mervyn Cutten (1997). The Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-173-2.
  3. ^ "Jenkins, Blanche". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Index. 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00094679. Archived from the original on 1 June 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  4. ^ Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  5. ^ Sparrow, Walter Shaw (1905). Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
  • Catalogue of an exhibition of pictures by Miss Blanche Jenkins., London : Doré Gallery
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