Julia Bracewell Folkard (1849–1933) was a British painter.

Life

She was born in 1849 and she was a student at the Royal Academy. She repaid this 1871 when she shared a silver medal with Julia Cecilia Smith for their paintings. The gold medal that year was taken by Jessie MacGregor. It was noted how these three women revealed the silliness of the rules that excluded women from becoming full members of the

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. She became a portrait and genre painter who was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy and

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from 1872. Her painting ''I Showed Her the Ring and Implored Her to Marry'' was included in the 1905 book ''

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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 Folkard died in

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. Bracewell's painting of

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is in the

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in London.Mary Anne Keeley
NPG, Retrieved 20 March 2016

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Folkard, Julia Bracewell 1849 births 1933 deaths 19th-century British painters 20th-century British painters 20th-century British women painters 19th-century British women painters