Milly Childers

Emily Maria Eardley Childers (1866–1922), known as Milly Childers, was an English painter of the later Victorian era and the early twentieth century.[1]

Milly Childers
Self portrait (1889)
Born
Emily Maria Eardley Childers

1866 (1866)
Died1922 (aged 55–56)
NationalityBritish
Known forPainting

She was the daughter of Hugh Childers, a prominent Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister of his generation.[2] Little is known about Milly Childers's early life; she began exhibiting her art around 1890. After her father's 1892 retirement from public service, father and daughter traveled together through England and France; Milly Childers painted landscapes and church interiors. Her father's social and political connections brought his daughter some commissioned work, including as a restorer and copyist for Lord Halifax at Temple Newsam.[3] Childers exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[4]

Portrait of Hugh Childers (1891)

One of Childers' best-known works is a portrait of her father; another is her own self portrait from 1889. Other of her better-known works are "Children Playing Hoops in the Street, Arromanches" and "The Pannier market, Barnstaple". Her style shows influences from the Impressionists.

Photograph by John Benjamin Stone
Finished painting: The Terrace, 1909
The artist at work - and its result

References
  1. Deborah Cherry, Painting Women: Victorian Women Artists, London, Routledge, 1993.
  2. Edmund Spencer Eardley Childers, The Life and Correspondence of Hugh C. E. Childers, 1827–1896, 2 Vols., London, John Murray, 1901.
  3. Liz Rideal, Mirror, Mirror: Self-Portraits by Women Artists, New York, Watson-Guptill, 2002; p. 44.
  4. Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 28 July 2018.


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