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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
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Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

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Display artist/maker:

Eliza Florance Bridell-Fox

Born: c.1824, UK, England, London   Died: 1904, UK, England, London, Kensington

Painter and illustrator. Daughter of a Unitarian minister. Studied at Henry Sass’s School of Art, 1843-46. Pursued a career in the arts and was keen to improve educational opportunities for women, petitioning for women to be allowed to enter the Royal Academy Schools. Set up a sketching group with her father in 1848, where women drew from an undraped model, an activity that existing art schools did not allow. She occasionally tutored here until 1858. Joined the Society of Female Artists in 1857 and exhibited with them until 1870. Took a painting tour of Germany and Italy from 1858-63, where she met her husband Frederick Lee Bridell (1830-1863), also a promising artist. At this time she began painting historical and genre subjects, but is better known for her colourful paintings of Arab life, landscapes and portraits made later in her career

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