Helen Allingham

Standard Name: Allingham, Helen
Used Form: Helen (Paterson) Allingham
Used Form: Mrs. W. Allingham

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships William Allingham
WA married, on 22 August 1874, Helen Paterson , who achieved success and popularity as a watercolour painter.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Friends, Associates Kate Greenaway
He commented on her work, and encouraged her to improve her style. His two main suggestions were that her art was too ornamental and decorative, and that it was not sufficiently fine and delicate...
Publishing Juliana Horatia Ewing
One of its illustrations (by Helen Paterson, later Allingham , who illustrated a number of JHE 's books), of children in big beaver bonnets . . . seated at a shop-counter buying flat-irons, was...

Timeline

Summer 1874: Watercolourist Helen (Paterson) Allingham...

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Summer 1874

Watercolourist Helen (Paterson) Allingham gained the recognition of the London artistic establishment after two of her paintings were selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
Taylor, Ina. Helen Allingham’s England: An Idyllic View of Rural Life. Penguin, 1990.
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Cherry, Deborah. Painting Women: Victorian Women Artists. Routledge, 1993.
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1890: The Old Watercolour Society admitted Helen...

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1890

The Old Watercolour Society admitted Helen Allingham as its first female full member.
Both Cherry and Taylor give the 1890 date for Allingham's addmittance as full member of the OWS, while the Marsh and Nunn...

Texts

Hardy, Thomas, and Helen Allingham. Far from the Madding Crowd. Smith, Elder, 1874, 2 vols.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia, and Helen Allingham. Six to Sixteen. Bell and Sons, 1876.