Charles Sillem Lidderdale
Charles Sillem Lidderdale (born September 16 July / September 28, 1830 greg. In St. Petersburg , Russian Empire ; † June 7, 1895 in Hampstead , London , England ) was a British portrait painter .
Life
Lidderdale was born as the eldest son of the Scottish banker of Aberdeen Bank John Lidderdale (1752-1845), who worked in St. Petersburg , and was baptized there in the Anglican Church on the English Bank in the same year. He went to England in the 1840s. His father died in St. Petersburg in 1845 shortly after recovering from the bank's bankruptcy .
Lidderdale began his career as a portrait painter in the mid-1850s and exhibited for the first time in 1856 at London's Royal Academy of Arts , where he exhibited a total of 36 paintings in the following years up to 1893. In 1858 he married Kazie Morris in Pancras , London. The couple had a son and three daughters in the years that followed. The painter was a member of the British Institution Art Association and the Royal Society of British Artists . He was buried in London's Kensal Green Cemetery .
Works
His works include mostly paintings by young girls and women. These include, for example:
- Petulance .
- Pensierosa , 1895.
- The fern collector .
- The grain collector .
- Country girl .
- Knitting woman .
- The brushwood collector .
- Spanish girl .
- Girl with kitten .
- The Mistress of the Tavern , oil on canvas, 64.5 × 46 cm.
- A pensive moment , oil on cardboard, 43 × 33.5 cm.
or
- The Jacobite in exile .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lidderdale, Charles Sillem |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British portrait painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 7, 1895 |
| Place of death | Hampstead , London , England |