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Margaret Beale

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Margaret Beale
Born30 June 1886
Yaldham,Kent,England
Died17 January 1969(1969-01-17)(aged 82)
NationalityBritish
Known forPainting

Margaret L. C. Beale(néeCrookshank30 June 1886 – 17 January 1969) was a British artist, notable as a painter of seascapes and marine craft, who worked in both oils and watercolours.[1][2]

Biography

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Beale was born at Yaldham inKentand took art lessons in London fromWilliam Orpenbetween 1906 and 1908.[3][4]In the following years she was a pupil of Percyval Tudor-Hart, first in Paris and then, during 1911 and 1912, in London.[4]She gave up art lessons when she married Major Sydney Beale.[3]Her father wasEdgar Marsh Crookshankknown for his work onvaccination.

During theFirst World War,Margaret Beale trained as aphysiotherapist.[5]

The Beales eventually settled atChidhaminSussexwhere Margaret Beale had a studio overlooking the harbour and the sea and marine craft, especially yachts, became regular subjects of her paintings.[4]She was a keen small-boat sailor and was present at the first meeting, in February 1939, of theRoyal Society of Marine Artistsand participated in the Society's inaugural exhibition.[1]Beale was an active member of the Chichester Art Society and had a solo exhibition in the town.[4]TheNational Maritime MuseuminGreenwichholds examples of her work.[4]Examples of her work can also be found at the Sunndal museum in Sunndal Norway where she painted several landscapes, interiors and people during holidays in her youth before her marriage.

References

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  1. ^abRoyal Society of Marine Artists (1996).A Celebration of Marine Art - Sixty Years of the Royal Society of Marine Artists.Bounty Books.ISBN978-0-7537-2468-2.
  2. ^Grant M. Waters (1975).Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900–1950.Eastbourne Fine Art.
  3. ^abAlasdair Alpin MacGregor (1961).Percyval Tudor-Hart, 1873-1954: Portrait of an Artist.P. R. Macmillan. p. 113.Retrieved16 February2021.
  4. ^abcdeDavid Buckman (2006).Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L.Art Dictionaries Ltd.ISBN0 953260 95 X.
  5. ^Druce, Stephanie."Major SWP Beale: Royal Sussex Regiment"(PDF).Great War West Sussex 1914-1918.West Sussex County Council.Retrieved16 February2021.