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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Edith Martineau - The Stone Breakers



1842–1909

Signed and dated 1887; watercolour, 26 × 20¼ ins

Edith Martineau belongs to the small group of women artists associated with the
Pre-Raphaelites. She painted in watercolour with a tight detailed and highly
competent style. Her subjects were usually genre or portraits although she also
painted landscape. She exhibited for twenty years at the Royal Academy as well as a
number of other venues including the Grosvenor Gallery. Her sister Gertrude was
also a painter.

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