Daphne Fedarb née Brook (1912-1992) was a British painter and artist.

Biography

Fedarb was born in London and studied art at Beckenham School of Art between 1928 and 1930 and then studied at the

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from 1931 to 1934. From 1936 to 1939 Fedarb studied at the

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where she was taught by both Mark Gertler and

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. In 1932 she married the artist Ernest Fedarb and in 1935 they held their first joint exhibition at the

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in London. Later in their careers the couple would have further joint exhibitions, notably at Sally Hunter Fine Art in 1986. Between 1961 and 1973 Daphne Fedarb was a regular exhibitor at the

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in London and also with the

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and the

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and also in America. She was a member of the National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers / Printmakers, and the

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. She was elected a member of the

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, RBA, in 1948 and won the RBA De Laszlo medal in 1982. Fedarb won first prize in the Laing Landscape competition in 1981 and two years later won second prize in the same contest.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fedarb, Daphne 1912 births 1992 deaths 20th-century English painters 20th-century English women artists Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art Alumni of the Westminster School of Art English women painters Painters from London 20th-century British women painters