Millicent Prout
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Millicent Prout |
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Female |
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Chelsea, London, United Kingdom |
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British |
| Birth: |
1875 |
| Death: |
1963 |
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washing out pigment and adding body colour and charcoal |
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Painting
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Biography
Millicent Margaret Fisher Prout's father was the American Impressionist painter Mark Fisher. In a letter to the art historian and curator Mary Chamot, who was researching for her book Modern Painting in England (London1937), his daughter recalled: 'I studied under my father in fact I may say I was apprenticed as from the earliest date I worked with him in the fields making studies of cattle or attendant holding a lantern on one occasion while he painted a sheep fold by moonlight.'
After training at the Slade in the 1890s, she taught art and then married a farmer. Fisher Prout spent much of her time painting en plein air, and working on portraits and still life. Women artists were an important subject for her.
Fisher Prout exhibited with a number of London Galleries, at the NEAC from 1906{becoming a member in 1925), and the Royal Academy (where she was made an Associate) between 1921 and 1964. In 1935, she was elected a member of the Society of Women Artists and showed there for nearly forty years. A memorial exhibition was held at the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolors in 1966, accompanied by a catalogue. Mark Fisher and Margaret Fisher Prout, Father and Daughter.
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