Ellen Eliza RICHARDSON
Ellen Eliza Richardson (also known as 'Nellie') was born in Hackney, London. She and the painter William Kirkbride BLACKLOCK were married in Chelsea in 1909. In 1910 they had a daughter, Eleanor Irene. Nellie is known to have modelled for her husband for a series of paintings between 1910 and 1917.
About 1912 the family settled in Walberswick in Suffolk for a few years, but later moved to Leicester, then Polperro, where William died in 1924. Nellie was a painter of flowers in watercolour, exhibiting at the Royal Academy Liverpool, the Walker Art Gallery and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour.
Nellie re-married in 1927 to Edward J B Sewell in Kensington. She continued to exhibit, and died in the Penzance district in 1956, aged 68.
media
Watercolour
works and access
Across the Harbour, Polperro; The Warren, Polperro
references
Information provided in February 2013 by Tony Copsey of www.suffolkpainters.co.uk
Tovey, David (2021) Polperro - Cornwall's Forgotten Art Centre - Volume Two - Post-1920, Wilson Books