Hilda Fearon
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landscapes, domestic subjects Art Work
| Name: |
Hilda Fearon |
| Gender: |
Female |
| Place of Birth: |
England |
| Nationality: |
British |
| Birth: |
1878 |
| Death: |
1917 |
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Quick Facts
| Known For: |
landscapes, domestic subjects |
| Medium: |
oil painting |
| Method: |
oil painting |
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| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Painter
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Biography
Hilda Fearon was part of a circle of artists in St Ives in the 1900s. She had studied in Dresden, and at the Slade, before travelling to Cornwall to train under the painter Algernon Talmage. Talmage, whose wife was also a painter, taught students to work en plein air, observing light effects on the figure and the landscape. Fearon painted her teacher smoking and reading. Fearon's sister, Annie, was also an artist. She painted biblical subjects, and married the Vicar of St Hilary Church, near Marazion, Cornwall. Through Hilda and Annie's contacts, the church was decorated with paintings of the saints by contemporary Newiyn artists.
Fearon's paintings are characterized by their intimate lightness. Sunlight plays across the figures in Fearon's work, often mothers and children. The peaceful, domestic subject matter of her paintings combined and their academic polish, are likely to have given their viewers at the Royal Academy a comforting sense of continuing tradition in the midst of the 1914-1918 war.
Hilda Fearon exhibited at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, becoming a member in 1910, the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, the Paris Salon and the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. She showed her work most regularly at the Royal Academy. The eighteen works she exhibited there are mainly domestic scenes, such as The Breakfast Table. Bessie and John, both exhibited in 1916, and landscapes, including The Road Across the Downs, were shown in the year of her death.
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