Lydia Larden (1826 – 1901) was a British artist. Some of her watercolours are in the collection of the
Sarjeant Gallery
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Biography
Larden was born Mary Lydia Fanny Bucknill in 1826 the daughter of Samuel Bucknill and Mary Birch.
She married the Rev George Edge Larden in 1847 and they had four children.
One of their daughters Frances Mary Larden died in June 1913 and their son Henry Neville Larden in February 1920.
Another daughter
Lydia Etheldreda (known as Ethel) married
William Birch and emigrated to New Zealand. In 1922 she donated a collection of Larden's paintings to the Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui.
Gallery of artworks
File:Ethel Birch - Badgworthy, North Devon - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
File:Ethel Birch - Church Stretton - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
File:Ethel Birch - Cheltenham - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
File:Ethel Birch - Near Oxford - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
File:Ethel Birch - Goathland - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
File:Ethel Birch - Conway Castle - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
File:Ethel Birch - Conway River - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
File:Ethel Birch - Cherwell, Mesopotamia - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
File:Ethel Birch - Grasmere, Xmas - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
File:Ethel Birch - Near Corwen - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
File:Ethel Birch - Near Watersmeet, Lynmouth - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
File:Ethel Birch - (Common) New Forest - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
File:Ethel Birch - Miller's Dale, Derbyshire - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
File:Ethel Birch - Stroud from Amberley - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
File:Ethel Birch - Christchurch Meadow flooded, Oxford - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
File:Ethel Birch - Amberley, Gloucestershire - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
File:Ethel Birch - Amberley Common, Gloucestershire - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
File:Lydia Larden - Amberley Common, Gloucestershire - Sarjeant Gallery1.jpg
File:Ethel Birch - Near Lyndhurst, New Forest - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
File:Ethel Birch - New College - City Wall - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
File:Ethel Birch - Countersbury Cove, North Devon - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
File:Ethel Birch - Untitled (Landscape with Horse and Cart) - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
File:Ethel Birch - Chalk Stream, Exmoor, North Devon - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
File:Ethel Birch - Brendon, North Devon - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
File:Ethel Birch - Countisbury Common, North Devon - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
File:Ethel Birch - Entrance from High Street to Magdalen College, Oxford - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg
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References
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1826 births
1901 deaths
19th-century English women artists