Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Helen Allingham - Wiliam, sketches and the Isle of Wight




[Study of William Allingham, her husband]
Pencil, November 1874
a few months after their marriage in 1874
[Sketch of a woman under a tree]
from her sketchbooks for 1868
[The view from Tennyson's window, Farringford, Isle of Wight]
Pencil and Watercolour
The Allingham's were friends with the Tennyson's and visited them at their home on the IOW (Freshwater) where she also painted the local cottages. She first went in 1890.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Allingham
http://www.sff.net/people/doylemacdonald/l_fairie.htm

The sketch of William was made after his marriage to Helen in 1874 and was later turned into a watercolour (now in the Dublin Portrait Gallery).

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