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Isobel Lilian Gloag

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Isobel Lilian Gloag
Born(1865-08-01)1 August 1865[1]
London
Died5 January 1917(1917-01-05)(aged 51)
London
NationalityBritish
Known forPainting

Isobel Lilian Gloag(1865–1917) was an EnglishVictorian painter,known for her oil and watercolour portraits, as well as posters and stained-glass designs.[2][3]

Biography[edit]

Gloag was born in London, the daughter of Scottish parents fromPerthshire.[4]Her early studies were made atSt. John's Wood Art School,and she later studied at theSlade School of Fine Art.Ill health compelled her to put aside plans for regular study, and she entered the studio of M.W. Ridley's for private instruction, following this with work at theSouth Kensington Museum.After still further study withRaphaël Collinin Paris, she returned to London and soon had her work accepted at theRoyal Academy of Arts,where she exhibited a total of 19 works.[5][2]She was an elected member of theRoyal Institute of Oil Paintersand theNew Society of Painters in Water-Colours.[3]Her earlier works were inspired by thePre-Raphaelites,while later works were more modern,[3]and her works have been cited as examples of post-VictorianAestheticism.[6]She made several designs for the stained-glass artistMary Lowndes.Suffering from health problems throughout her life, she died in London on 5 January 1917, aged 51.[1]Her work was posthumously featured in an exhibition at theGrafton Galleries,London.[7]

Selected works
The Kiss of the Enchantress(ca. 1890)
Four corners to my bed...(ca. 1901)
The Magic Mantle(1898), based onThe Boy and the Mantle

References[edit]

  1. ^ab"Benezit Dictionary of Artists".Benezit Dictionary of Artists.2011.doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00075639.ISBN978-0-19-977378-7.Retrieved13 April2018.
  2. ^abClement, Clara Erskine (1904).Women in the Fine Arts: From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.Houghton, Mifflin. p. 145.
  3. ^abcGray, Sara (2009)."Gloag, Isabel Lilian".The Dictionary of British Women Artists.Casemate Publishers. pp. 118–119.ISBN978-0-7188-3084-7.
  4. ^Greig, James (May 1902)."Isobel Lilian Gloag and her work".The Magazine of Art.Vol. 26. pp. 289–293.
  5. ^Wootton, Sarah (2008).""Into her Dream he Melted": Women Artists Remodelling Keats ".Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net(51): 0.doi:10.7202/019260ar.
  6. ^Nunn, Pamela Gerrish (2011)."Alienation, Adoption or Adaptation? Aestheticist Paintings by Women".Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens(74): 141–154.doi:10.4000/cve.1364.
  7. ^"London Letter".American Art News.15(32): 5. 19 May 1917.JSTOR25589073.

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