women in art: eleanor fortescue-brickdale (1872-1945)
eleanor fortescue-brickdale was a british painter born to an upper-class family who enrolled at the royal academy of london in 1897. her subject matter of choice was replications of stories from myths and popular plays such as those by shakespeare. she became less productive in her later years as her sight started to fail her. (more on her life from aware women artists)
the deceitfulness of riches (1901)
the little foot page (1905)
the uninvited guest (1906)
if one could have that little head of hers (1910)
idylls of the king (1913)
elaine (1913)
maud is only seventeen (1919)
st clare (1919)






















