
Edith Martineau (19 June 1842 – 19 February 1909)
was a British watercolour painter.
Biography

Martineau was born in
Liverpool
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as the daughter of
Dr. James Martineau, an eminent
Unitarian minister. She was trained first at the
Liverpool School of Art
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but moved with her family to London, where she began following classes at
Leigh's School of Art.
She submitted her work to the
Royal Society of British Artists
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History
The RBA commenced with twenty-seven members, and took until 1876 to reach fi ...
in 1862.
[ She remained true to watercolour painting and was a member of various societies of watercolour artists, and in 1888, Martineau was elected an associate of the ]Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours
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Martineau exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts
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at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
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in Chicago, Illinois.
Her 1888 painting ''Potato Harvest'' was included in the 1905 book ''Women Painters of the World
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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
Edith died in Hampstead
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, aged 66, and was buried in the Martineau family grave on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery
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.
References
External links
*
Edith Martineau
on artnet
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1842 births
1909 deaths
19th-century British painters
19th-century British women painters
Alumni of the Heatherley School of Fine Art
Alumni of Liverpool John Moores University
Burials at Highgate Cemetery
English people of French descent
Edith
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Painters from Liverpool