Emily Maria Eardley Childers (1866–1922), known as Milly Childers, was an English painter of the later

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and the early twentieth century. She was the daughter of

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, a prominent Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister of his generation. Little is known about Milly Childers's early life; she began exhibiting her art around 1890. After her father's 1892 retirement from public service, father and daughter traveled together through England and France; Milly Childers painted landscapes and church interiors. Her father's social and political connections brought his daughter some commissioned work, including as a restorer and copyist for

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, ''Mirror, Mirror: Self-Portraits by Women Artists'', New York, Watson-Guptill, 2002; p. 44. Childers exhibited her work at the

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at the 1893

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in Chicago, Illinois. One of Childers' best-known works is a portrait of her father; another is her own self portrait from 1889. Other of her better-known works are ''Children Playing Hoops in the Street, Arromanches'' and
The Pannier market, Barnstaple
'. Her style shows influences from the

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British Women Painters: 1893 ExpositionThe Terrace
(1909 painting of the terrace at the UK

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Photo of Childers and her work
( National Portrait Gallery, London) 1866 births 1922 deaths 19th-century English painters 20th-century English painters 20th-century English women artists 19th-century English women artists English women painters Milly {{UK-painter-19thC-stub