Constance Phillott

Constance Phillott (1842 – 30 March 1931) was a British painter.[1]

Constance Phillott
Born1842
Died1931
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Portrait of Eugénie Sellers Strong, 1890

Phillott was the daughter of Arthur Phillott, a physician, and Frances Frend, the daughter of William Frend. She got her education at the Royal Academy schools, along with her cousin William Frend De Morgan and his later wife, Mary Evelyn Pickering. Phillott exhibited with a number of societies, including the Royal Academy, the Society of British Artists, multiple galleries, such as the Grosvenor Gallery, and she was elected an associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours.[2] Constance declared her support for female suffrage and joined the London suffrage society in 1889.[3] There is no trace of her exhibiting after the 1880s, and it is unclear what happened to her at that time.[4]

She sometimes inscribed her work with poetry and lived at 25g Stanhope Street N.W. in London.[5] Her work The Herdsmen of Admetus was included in the book Women Painters of the World. She is known for landscape, portraits and other subjects.[4]

In 1997, her watercolor "Demetriki called Tito" was included in the exhibition English Realist Watercolors, 1830-1915 at the Shepherd Gallery.[6]

References
  1. Brian Stewart & Mervyn Cutten (1997). The Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-173-2.
  2. Hamerton, Philip Gilbert (1882). "Art Chronicle". The Portfolio: An Artistic Periodical. 13: 98 – via ProQuest.
  3. Deborah., Cherry (2000). Beyond the frame : feminism and visual culture, Britain 1850-1900. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415107261. OCLC 45484783.
  4. Gray, Sara (2009). The Dictionary of British Women Artists. Casemate Publishers. p. 208. ISBN 9780718830847.
  5. Inscriptions on painting on Christie's website
  6. Newall, Christopher (1997). English Realist Watercolors 1830-1915. New York: Shepherd Gallery.

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