Esther GEORGE
Esther George was born in Salop, studying at Birmingham School of Art, Chelsea Art School and Herkomer's at Bushey.
Tovey provides a photograph of the artist working in open air (p56), and in the 1924 Show Day at St Ives she exhibited a portrait of a lady and a child playing with coloured balloon balls. She was married to the artist Ernest Borough JOHNSON.
media
Portrait, flower and landscape painter
works and access
Works Include: The Cider maker (1906); Rebecca et Isabella Ostrorskey (1925); Nona and her Dog (1929)
exhibitions
BA (41); BG (1); CHE (3); GOU (9); I (9); LI (12); NGB
Paris Salon (18) (Hon Mention 1925, Bronze Medal 1929)
RA from 1896 (27)
RMS (2)
SWA (1)
references
St Ives Times 21 Mar 1924
Benezit
Crespon-Halotier
Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall (p315)
Johnson & Greutzner (1975) Dictionary of British Artists (under Johnson)
Tovey George Fagan Bradshaw (under Borough J, Photo 1923)
Tovey, David (2021) Polperro - Cornwall's Forgotten Art Centre - Volume One - Pre-1920, Wilson Books
Whybrow (1994) St Ives
Wood (1995) Victorian Painters
The Year's Art