Blanche Jenkins
Blanche Jenkins R.A. (1852–1915) was a British portrait painter.
Blanche Jenkins
Blanche Jenkins · This work was published in the Graphic on the 1st of July, 1888. · Public domain
- Died
- 1915
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- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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- painter
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• Illustration — Grave of Blanche Jenkins in Highgate Cemetery Jenkins was active as an exhibitor at the Society of British Artists and at the Royal Academy, where she showed some 49 works from 1872 onwards. Her works The Fairy Queen; Daisy, daughter of G.T.R. Preston, Esq; and A Little Coquette were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1883. She was also a member of the Society of Lady Artists, through which she exhibited numerous works and gained some acclaim. She also exhibited her work at the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. Her painting Her Morning Ride was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World. She died in 1915 and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery with her father George (d.1871) and her sister Emma (d.1904).
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• Illustration — Portrait of a child • Illustration — Cupid with roses • Illustration — Miss Georgie
Published in the Illustrated London News, May 4, 1895.
Blanche Jenkins · Published in the Illustrated London News, May 4, 1895
Published in the Graphic, 'paintings of the year,' c. 1888.
Blanche Jenkins · Published in the Graphic, 1888.
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1850
Blanche Jenkins born.
1915
Blanche Jenkins died.
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- 1.Blanche Jenkins. RKD.
- 2.Blanche Jenkins (b.c. 1852). The Royal Academy. 20 May 2026.
- 3.Antique Collectors' Club. The Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920. 1997. 1-85149-173-2.
- 4.London: William Clowes and Sons, Ltd. The exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1883: The 115th. 10, 18, 23. 1883.
- 5.Oxford Index. Jenkins, Blanche. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 2011. 10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00094679.
- 6.Nichols, K. L. Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893.
- 7.Sparrow, Walter Shaw. Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day. Hodder & Stoughton. 1905.
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