Margaret Dicksee or Margaret Isabel Dicksee (22 January 1858 – 6 June 1903) was a

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painter. Dicksee was born in

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as the daughter of the painter

Thomas Francis Dicksee Thomas Francis Dicksee (1819–1895) was a British painter. He was a portraitist and painter of historical genre subjects often inspired by the works of Shakespeare. Life and career Thomas Francis Dicksee was born in London on 13 December 1819 ...

. Her brother

Frank Dicksee Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee (27 November 1853 – 17 October 1928) was an English Victorian painter and illustrator, best known for his pictures of dramatic literary, historical, and legendary scenes. He also was a noted painter of portr ...

also became a painter. Dicksee showed her works at the

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from 1883. Her paintings ''In Memoriam'' and ''The Child Handel'' were included in the 1905 book ''

Women Painters of the World ''Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413–1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day'', assembled and edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow, is a book that lists an overview of prominent women painters up to 1905, the year of ...

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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 File:Margaret Isabel Dicksee The Child Handel 1893.jpg, ''The Child Handel'', 1893 File:Margaret Isabel Dicksee - In Memoriam.jpg, ''In Memoriam''

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1858 births 1903 deaths Painters from London 19th-century British painters 19th-century British women painters {{UK-painter-19thC-stub