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Hellene Walton
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UCL Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, Gower St, Kings Cross, London WC1E 6BT
The Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, Kensington, London SW7 2EU
Grace
Geraldine English (February 10, 1891 - December 4, 1956) was a British painter and
etcher. When three of Ethel Walker's paintings were offered to the Tate in
1947, two by her loyal friend Grace English, one by the artist herself,
they were all turned away. A painter of female nudes herself, English
wrote a monograph on Walker but it remained unpublished. They had met in
1931. In 1963 Hellene
Walton, English's executor and also a painter (exhibitor at the 1922 The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition), presented the
unpublished monograph to the Tate Gallery. Phyllis Deborah Cummins
dedicated one of her poems to English and Walton.
English was born in London, at Lower Berkeley Street,
the daughter of Robert English and Mary Ann Mayne, and as a teenager spent time in Paris and
Germany.[1]
In 1912 she went to Germany with her sister Dolly English, Margot Hamilton
(Dolly's friend) and I. A. R. Wylie,
for whom she later produced illustrations for her book on the Black
Forest.[1]
(Dorothy Mary English Frater, 1886-1948, was the third child and eldest
daughter. It is believed she studied art at the same school as Grace).
Returning to London she studied at the
Slade School of Art in the city until 1914.[2]
At the Slade she won a painting prize.[3]
During World War I, English worked in a munitions factory and also
produced machine drawings.[1]
After the war she studied etching at the
Royal College of Art during 1921.[3]
Throughout her career English painted portraits, flowers and ballet
dancers.[1]
She was a regular exhibitor at the
Royal Academy and at the
New English Art Club and with the
Royal Society of British Artists and the
Royal Society of Portrait Painters.[2]
Leeds City Art Gallery holds examples of her work.[3]
Female Figure Lying on a Couch, 1916
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