Mary Elizabeth Duffield-Rosenberg

Mary Elizabeth Duffield, née Rosenberg (1819–1914) was a British flower painter and the wife of the still life painter William Duffield.

Mary Elizabeth Duffield
Born
Mary Elizabeth Rosenberg

1819
Died1914
NationalityBritish
Known forPainting
StyleFloral art
SpouseWilliam Duffield

Life and work

Chrysanthemums (1883)

She was born in Bath as the eldest daughter of Mr. T. E. Rosenberg, and became a painter of fruit and flowers. She was a member of the Institute of Painters in Water-Colours and married the still life painter William Duffield in 1850.[1]

Duffield exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[2]

Her painting Yellow Roses was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[3]

References

  1. Fagan 1888, p. 132.
  2. Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  3. Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413–1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905

Bibliography

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.