{Artist} Annie French

Sometimes we can learn so much about an artist by the life they leave behind & other times, we have only their life's work to gaze at to try in some way imagine what they must have been like. And this sadly, is very true for Annie French, born in (1872-1975) Glasgow, Scotland, she was a 19th & 20th century painter, etcher and illustrator, who taught ceramic decoration at the Applied Art Studios of the Glasgow School of Art. She was the daughter of a metallurgist. She studied under Fra Newbery and the Belgian Symbolist, Jean Delville (1896-1902) at the Glasgow School of Art. Influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, Aubrey Beardsley and Jesse M. King, she developed a style combining vivid colours, curvilinearity of form and almost confetti-like textures. She made many watercolours and pen drawings to illustrate children's books, a studio critic once described her work as having, 'individual charm in it's highly decorative quality and elegance of design'. Her work flourished between 1900 and 1925, she married the etcher and stained-glass artist, George Woolliscroft-Rhead in 1914. Even with this little bit of information about her life, one only has to look at her work and discover a soul full of passion and creativity, one who was very well capable of creating her own world with a very dreamy style. An expanse of work that runs deep in the 'Glasgow style' of creating, seen also in Charles Rennie Mackintosh & his wife Margaret MacDonald.  I find it sad there is very little information on her, but I hope in time with some digging in various places, I will be able to discover more. I hope that you'll enjoy her work too!! Have a wonderful day dolls!!

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Group of female painters in Drawing & Painting class at Glasgow School of Art.
Among them is Ann Macbeth (third women on the left in the back looking at her painting) and Annie French, though there was no info in my researching to tell me which is Annie :(

{The Briar Maiden} My Favourite <3

{Collecting Swallow's Nests}

{The Peacock Coat}

{The Peacock and the Rose}

{My Love is like a Red Red Rose}

{Ophelia}

{The Lilac Veil}

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{All images via the internet}