Helen Allingham (1848-1926)

Aliases: Helen Paterson

Professions: Painter; Illustrator

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  Helen Allingham R.W.S. (British, 1848-1929)

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  Helen Allingham, R.W.S. (1848-1926)

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  HELEN ALLINGHAM R.W.S., BRITISH 1848-1926

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  Helen Allingham, R.W.S. (1848-1926)

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Helen Allingham Biography

(b Burton on Trent, Staffs, 26 Sept 1848; d Haslemere, Surrey, 28 Sept 1926). English illustrator and painter. The daughter of a physician, she was brought up in Altrincham, Ches, and, after her father’s death in 1862, in Birmingham. She studied at the Birmingham School of Design and, from 1867, at the Royal Academy Schools, London. From 1869 she provided illustrations for Joseph Swain and subsequently for the Graphic and Cornhill magazines. She exhibited watercolours at the Dudley Gallery. In 1874 she married the Irish poet William Allingham, and her consequent financial independence allowed her to abandon black-and-white illustration. Her new circle of friends included Tennyson, Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle, whose portrait she drew (version of 1879; Edinburgh, N.P.G.). In 1875 she was elected an associate of the Old Water-Colour Society (she became a full member in 1890 after the prohibition on lady members was withdrawn); she was a regular exhibitor there.

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