Mary Lemon Waller

Mary Lemon Waller
Born
Mary Lemon Fowler

1851 (1851)
Bideford, Devon, England
Died1931 (aged 79–80)
NationalityBritish
EducationRoyal Academy Schools
Known forPortrait Paintings
SpouseSamuel Edmund Waller

Mary Lemon Waller (born Mary Lemon Fowler) (1851–1931)[1] was a British portrait painter, who specialised in child portraits.

Mary Lemon Waller – Spring Voices

Biography

Mary Lemon was born to Rev. Hugh Fowler of Burnwood, Gloucestershire. She began her education in art at an Art School in Gloucester, and later studied at the Royal Academy schools.[2] Waller began exhibiting paintings as early as age 20,[3] and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1877 to 1904.[4] She married genre painter Samuel Edmund Waller in 1874;[4] the couple lived in London and had one son.[3] Waller exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[5] In 1925, Waller became a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.[6]

Waller's works can be seen at several venues in the United Kingdom: Cragside, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and Somerville College, Oxford.[1]

Mary Lemon Waller – Portrait of Henry Clifton Sorby

Exhibitions

References

  1. ^ a b "Mary Lemon Waller (1851–1931) | Art UK". ArtUK. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
  2. ^ Nichols, Dr. Kathleen L. "British Women Painters: 1893 Exposition—page 4". arcadiasystems.org. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Portraits In the Cutlers' Hall: On the Ground Floor, Main and Rear Stairs" (PDF). cutlers-hallamshire.org.uk. The Company of the Cutlers in Hallamshire. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 March 2017.
  4. ^ a b Gibson, Frank William (1912). "Waller, Samuel Edmund" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 3. pp. 580–581. see penultimate para "He married in 1874 Mary Lemon, daughter of the Rev. Hugh Fowler of Burnwood, Gloucestershire. His widow, a well-known artist, who exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1877 to 1904, survived him with a son....
  5. ^ Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 30 July 2018.
  6. ^ Ltd, e3 Media. "Winifred Margaret Watson-Armstrong (1894–1912) 1230399 | National Trust Collections". www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)