Mamba's Daughter, 1933 by Dame Ethel Walker
© Dame Ethel Walker, Bridgeman Art Library / Private Collection / Sally Hunter Fine Art, London, UK
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- Mamba's Daughter, 1933
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- Dame Ethel Walker
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- SHU222318
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- Open edition
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- Bridgeman Art Library
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- © Dame Ethel Walker, Bridgeman Art Library / Private Collection / Sally Hunter Fine Art, London, UK
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The Artist: Dame Ethel Walker
(1861-1951)
Dame Ethel Walker was an English painter and sculptor. She was inspired to become an artist after seeing a collection of oriental art in Edinburgh. She studied in London at the Putney Art School and at the Westminster School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art under Frederick Brown. On a visit to Spain in 1884 she was greatly impressed by Velazquez's blend of realism and myth, and in Paris she identified particularly with Manet and with the Impressionists.
In 1898 she settled in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London and established there a studio that she maintained for the rest of her life. She also painted regularly at Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire. The sombre tones of her early flower compositions and figures in interiors gave way to brighter, richer interpretations derived from Impressionism. In 1900 she was elected the first woman member of the New English Art Club. Her works displayed a vibrancy of colour and spontaneity of composition without any apparent interest in the
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