Saturday, April 25, 2009

Helena Maguire



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1860 - 1909.
A watercolourist working in the style of Birket Foster and William Henry Hunt. Daughter of Thomas Herbert Maguire a historical painter and her sister Adelaide Agnes was known for her genre and flower paintings. Helena exhibited at the RA but never became very well known. She illustrated a number of children's books.
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4 comments:

  1. LucasApril 26, 2009 at 2:51 AM

    Beautiful paintings.
    I really like the second one. In a way, it looks real to me.

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  2. HermesApril 26, 2009 at 7:23 AM

    They are very cute really but she does seem to have worked from life and had a real talent.

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  3. Jon HatfieldNovember 6, 2011 at 11:56 PM

    These 2 images are exceptional perhaps not typical. Maguire cat & dog images, both realistic & fantasy, perhaps largest category in 1890s UK greeting cards, then reused extensively for early 1899-1906 Euro art postcards, equally so for U.S. postcards 1906-191

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  4. Jon HatfieldNovember 7, 2011 at 12:01 AM

    continued... 1911, & w/GOM (Obpacher) 1920s PCs--thus Maguire a major presence in international art paper, published by all the key international art publishers.

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