Cecilia ELWES

Mrs Cecilia ELWES
1874
1952
Cecilia Forsyth or Forsythe, Mrs Elwes

Elwes studied with both Stanhope FORBES and Samuel John Lamorna BIRCH, and in Switzerland. She exhibited work at Newlyn Art Gallery in 1909 under the name of C FORSYTHE, and was reported in the Cornish Telegraph (25 March 1909) as 'Mr'.

In 1932 she wrote Flower Painting in Water-colour. Her addresses were in Bournemouth and later as a resident in Oxford.

media

Flower painter in oil and watercolour

works and access

Works include: author of book Flower Painting in Water-colour (1932)

exhibitions

ROI; RI; RSA; SWA

references

Buckman (2006) Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945

Graves British Artists 1880-1940

Green (2002) Posing the Model

Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall

Johnson & Gruetzner (1975) Dictionary of British Artists;