Teresa Copnall

Teresa Copnall
Born
Teresa Norah Burchart

24 August 1882
Haughton-le-Skerne, England
Died1972 (aged 89–90)
Education
Known forPainting

Teresa Norah Copnall (née Burchart; 24 August 1882 – 1972), was a British painter known for her flower studies and portrait painting.[1]

Biography

Copnall was born in Haughton-le-Skerne near Darlington in the north of England, where her father was a company director.[2][3] She was educated in Brussels before attending art school in Barrow in Furness.[2] Copnall studied at the Slade School of Art in London and also at Hubert von Herkomer’s art school in Bushey.[3][4]

She married the Liverpool born portrait painter Frank Thomas Copnall (1870-1948) and the couple settled at Hoylake in Cheshire.[4][5] They also became regular visitors to the artists colony at St Ives in Cornwall.[3]

During her career Copnall exhibited at the Royal Academy in London on several occasions.[3] She also exhibited with the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Society of Women Artists.[2] Copnall was a member of the Deeside Art Group and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.[5] Overseas her work was shown at the Paris Salon and also exhibited in Canada. Both the Medici Society and Raphael Tuck & Sons produced reproductions of her designs and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool holds examples of her flower paintings.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 3 Bulow-Cossin. Editions Grund, Paris. 2006. ISBN 2-7000-3073-7.
  2. ^ a b c d David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0-953260-95-X.
  3. ^ a b c d Marion Whybrow (1994). St Ives 1883-1993 Portrait of an Art Colony. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1851491708.
  4. ^ a b Frances Spalding (1990). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-106-6.
  5. ^ a b Grant M. Waters (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950. Eastbourne Fine Art.