Julia Beatrice How (16 October 1867 – 19 August 1932) was a British painter active in France.

Biography

How was born in

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to a family of silversmiths. She was the youngest of her family, and both of her parents died before she was an adult. She moved with her family to Bournesmouth and attended the Herkomer School at

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. She then moved to

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to study at the Academie Delecluse around 1893, and began exhibiting in 1902 at the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, where she exhibited around 147 works throughout her career. While in Paris, she was introduced to the work of Rodin, Polin, Besnard and Lucien Simon, whose works may have influenced her art. She eventually set up a workshop in

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. How painted various subjects, including nudes, portraits of children, and fruit and flower studies, and worked using a variety of media, including pastels, crayons, oils, and watercolors. How was "considered on par with

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and

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" in France and America, but was "somewhat neglected in her country of origin." How's works were included in various exhibitions in France, Britain, and abroad. These exhibitions included the

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(1915–36), the

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(1913-39), the

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(1924–36), the Liverpool Autumn Exhibitions (1910 and 1912),

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(1927), Galeries Georges Petit (1919 and 1926), Galeries des Artistes Francais (1928),

Salon des Tuileries The Salon des Tuileries was an annual art exhibition for painting and sculpture, created June 14, 1923, co-founded by painters Albert Besnard and Bessie Davidson, sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, architect Auguste Perret, and others. The first year' ...

(1923–24), and the Carnegie Exhibition (1910-1914 and 1925). After her death in 1932, a memorial exhibition was held at the

in 1933 and at the

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in 1935. How won an Honourable Mention at the Carnegie Exhibition in 1914 and was elected as an Associate of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1904. In 1905 two of her paintings, ''In a Dutch Cottage'' and ''Le Repas'' were included in ''

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, lists an overview of prominent women painters up to 1905, the year of publication. T ...

'', an overview of women painters with the remark "Miss Beatrice How...gives us, most delightfully, the very sentiment of the country people she paints." How is most recognized for her art depicting mothers and children. According to the Kourd Gallery, "Her fragile technique and the masterly handling of the lowest tones give so much vitality to her paintings that they seem almost transparent." How never married or had children. She died in 1932 after falling at her niece's home in

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. File:Julia Beatrice How - In a Dutch Cottage - Salon 1904.jpg, ''In a Dutch Cottage'', shown at the Paris Salon in 1904 File:Julia Beatrice How - Le Repas.jpg, ''Le Repas''

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