Enid Mary Chadwick (26 October 1902 – 24 October 1987) was a British artist known for religious art and children's religious material.
Enid Chadwick lived in
Walsingham
Walsingham () is a civil parish in North Norfolk, England, famous for its religious shrines in honour of Mary, mother of Jesus. It also contains the ruins of two medieval Christian monasticism, monastic houses.Ordnance Survey (2002). ''OS Expl ...
for more than fifty years. She came to Walsingham from
Brighton
Brighton ( ) is a seaside resort in the city status in the United Kingdom, city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, south of London.
Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age Britain, Bronze Age, R ...
in 1934. She was the daughter of a priest and attended a convent school in
Oxford
Oxford () is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.
The city is home to the University of Oxford, the List of oldest universities in continuou ...
run by the sisters of the
Society of the Holy and Undivided Trinity
The Society of the Holy and Undivided Trinity was an Anglican religious order for women in England. It was notable for having been founded by Marian Hughes, the first woman to take religious vows in the Church of England since the English Reforma ...
, whose house is now
St Antony's College
St Antony's College is a colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1950 as the result of the gift of French merchant Sir Antonin Besse of Aden, St Antony's specialises in intern ...
.
Chadwick trained at the
Brighton School of Art prior to coming to Walsingham in 1934. Chadwick's painting and her personal style appear in the
Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
The Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham is a Church of England shrine church, built in 1938 in Walsingham, Norfolk, England. It was established as part of the revival of pilgrimage devotion led by Father Alfred Hope Patten in the 1920s.
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1902 births
1987 deaths
20th-century British women artists
Religious artists
British Anglo-Catholics
Artists from Brighton
People from Walsingham