Ethel Angell

Ethel Angell
Ethel Angell from a 1931 newspaper article
Born
Ethel Elizabeth Angell

(1889-07-22)22 July 1889
Abbots Ripton, Cambridgeshire
Died31 January 1972(1972-01-31) (aged 82)
Coventry, Warwickshire
NationalityEnglish
OccupationArtist

Ethel Angell (22 July 1889 - 31 January 1972) was an English flower and landscape artist[1] and teacher.[2] She had paintings accepted into the 1931 and 1946 Royal Academy of Arts exhibition.[3]

Ethel was the oldest of five children born to Eliza and Thomas Angell, a coach trimmer. She taught at Ansley School and lived at Ansley Common Warwickshire. [4] She was living at Hartshill when she died in 1972.[5]

Painting career

Angell studied painting in Bath, Somerset with Alfred Jones (1851-1928) and then with John Anthony Park, ROI, RBA (1880-1962) at the Nuneaton Art School.[6]

In 1931 she had a painting Zinnias,[7] painted while on holiday in Brittany, accepted into the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) exhibition. It was the first time she had submitted her work to be considered.[8] Of her success she said, “I consider myself very lucky, considering the thousands sent from all parts of the world by artists who do nothing else.”[9] She had a subsequent painting, The Harbour at High Tide,[10] accepted for the 1946 RA exhibition.[11]

She exhibited with the Coventry and Warwickshire Society of Artists (CWSA) in 1930[12] and 1931.[13] She had four paintings, including At Midday and Leafy Warwickshire in the Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery in 1947.[14] She also exhibited with the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (RBSA) and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI).[15]

References

  1. ^ "Clever Craftsman". Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette. Bath, UK. 1937-03-20. p. 19.
  2. ^ "Home topics". Hinckley Echo. Hinckley, UK. 1931-05-08. p. 4.
  3. ^ Johnson, J; Greutzner, A (1976). Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940. Suffolk, UK: Woodbridge. p. 27. ISBN 0902028367.
  4. ^ ""On the line"". Hinckley Echo. Hinckley, UK. 1931-05-08. p. 5.
  5. ^ "Local Wills". Atherstone News and Herald. Atherstone, UK. 1972-04-14. p. 1.
  6. ^ ""On the line"". Hinckley Echo. Hinckley, UK. 1931-05-08. p. 5.
  7. ^ Llewellyn, William (1931). Royal Academy of Arts in London, 1931. London, UK: Royal Academy of Art. p. 42.
  8. ^ ""On the line"". Hinckley Echo. Hinckley, UK. 1931-05-08. p. 5.
  9. ^ "Bath Girl Artist". Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette. Bath, UK. 1931-05-02. p. 15.
  10. ^ Munnings, Alfred James (1942). The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts MCMXLVI. London, UK: Royal Academy of Art. p. 25.
  11. ^ "Hinckley Community Guild". Hinckley Times. Hinckley, UK. 1946-06-07. p. 2.
  12. ^ "Local art". Nuneaton Chronicle. Nuneaton, UK. 1930-05-09. p. 4.
  13. ^ "Society of Artists". Midland Counties Tribune. Coventry, UK. 1931-05-01. p. 8.
  14. ^ "Nuneaton Art Gallery". Hinckley Echo. Hinckley, UK. 1947-07-11. p. 7.
  15. ^ Buckman, David (1998). Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945. Bristol, UK: Art Dictionaries. p. 71. ISBN 0953260909.