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Elsie Vera Cole (27 July 1885 – 2 January 1967) was an English painter, engraver and art teacher.


Biography

Cole was born in Braintree in
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to the congregational minister William Cole and his wife Ellen née Holmes. Cole went to school in
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in
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and studied at the
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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
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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
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, the
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, the
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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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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cole, Elsie Vera 1885 births 1967 deaths 20th-century English painters Alumni of Anglia Ruskin University Alumni of Norwich University of the Arts People from Braintree, Essex 20th-century English women painters