Henrietta Rae
Henrietta Emma Ratcliffe Rae (born December 30, 1859 in London , † January 26, 1928 there ) was an English genre and portrait painter of the later Victorian era.
Life
Rae was born the youngest of seven children of officer Thomas Rae. Her mother Anne Eliza geb. Graves was a student of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy . Her uncle, Charles Rae, was an artist and student of George Cruikshank .
Henrietta Rae attended the Queen Square School of Art and the Heatherley School of Art .
She only succeeded in enrolling at the Royal Academy of Arts for the fifth time in 1877, but then won a scholarship to study for seven years. There she studied with Frank Bernard Dicksee , William Powell Frith and Lawrence Alma-Tadema . Since 1881 she has shown her works at the exhibitions of the academy.
She painted large-format allegorical and mythological pictures, which often brought her medals, including at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 . She was often engaged in nude painting .
In 1884 she married the painter Ernest Normand of the same age . The couple had two children, a son (* 1886) and a daughter (* 1893). Henrietta Rae kept her maiden name after the marriage.
In 1893 the Normands moved into a house and studio in London's bohemian Holland Park . Her studio was regularly visited by Frederic Leighton , John Everett Millais , Valentine Cameron Prinsep (1838-1904) and George Frederic Watts .
The Normands traveled to Paris in 1890 to study with Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant at the Académie Julian .
Like several other artists of her time, Rae was committed to women's suffrage and feminism .
literature
- Arthur Fish: Henrietta Rae (Mrs. Ernest Normand). Cassell, London 1905.
- Deborah Cherry: Painting Women: Victorian Women Artists. Routledge, London 1993.
- Meaghan Clarke: Critical Voices: Women and Art Criticism in Britain 1880–1905. Ashgate, London 2005, ISBN 0-7546-0815-8 , p. 99.
- Alison Smith: The Victorian Nude: Sexuality, Morality, and Art. Tate Publishing, 2001, ISBN 1-85437372-2 -
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ ArtRenewal Biography
- ^ Victorian biography
- ↑ LicornaMuseum Biography
- ↑ ArtMagick Biography ( Memento of the original from July 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rae, Henrietta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rae, Henrietta Emma Ratcliffe (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English genre and portrait painter of the later Victorian era |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 1928 |
| Place of death | London |