Elsie Vera Cole
Elsie Vera Cole (27 July 1885 – 2 January 1967) was an English painter, engraver and art teacher.
Elsie Vera Cole
- Name
- Elsie Vera Cole
- Born
- 27 July 1885
- Birthplace
- Braintree, Essex, England
- Died
- 2 January 1967
- Place of death
- Diss, Norfolk, England
- Education
- * Norwich School of Art
- Known for
- Painting
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- painter · engraver
- Languages
- English
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Elsie Vera Cole (27 July 1885 – 2 January 1967) was an English painter, engraver and art teacher.
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• Name — Elsie Vera Cole • Born — 27 July 1885 • Birthplace — Braintree, Essex, England • Died — 2 January 1967 • Place of death — Diss, Norfolk, England • Education — * Norwich School of Art • Chelmsford School of Art • Known for — Painting
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Cole was born in Braintree in Essex to the congregational minister William Cole and his wife Ellen née Holmes. Cole went to school in Gravesend in Kent and studied at the Norwich School of Art from 1908 to 1910. She went on to study at the Chelmsford School of Art, completing her studies in 1919. Cole then returned to the Norwich School of Art to take a teaching position at and continued to teach there until 1941. Living in Norwich she produced A Sketch book of Norwich which was published in 1920. Cole travelled and painted widely in Britain and Europe. She exhibited with the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, the Society of Women Artists, the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol and with the Norwich Art Circle. From 1933 she was also a regular exhibitor with the Ipswich Art Club. Cole died at Diss in Norfolk in 1967.
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1885
Elsie Vera Cole born at Braintree.
1967
Elsie Vera Cole died at Diss.
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- 1.Editions Grund, Paris. Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 3 Bulow-Cossin. 2006. 2 7000 3073 7.
- 2.COLE, Elsie Vera. Suffolk Painters.
- 3.David Buckman. Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. 2006. 0 953260 95 X.
- 4.Grant M. Waters. Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950. Eastbourne Fine Art. 1975.
- 5.Frances Spalding. 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. 1990. 1 85149 106 6.
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