Evelyn Lina LINTON

Mrs Evelyn Lina LINTON
nee BECKLES, AKA Mrs Evans
1888
1986

Linton was born at Beckles, Harlesdon, Middlesex and studied at the Herkomer Art School, Bushey for two years, having won a scholarship for this privilege (1907-09). She married William Evans Linton in Watford in 1911.

Her address in St Ives is listed from 1914, and then from 1916 in Bristol. She exhibited in her first Show Day in St Ives in 1914 as Miss Beckles, and thereafter as Mrs Evans Linton, and was described as a painter of horses and cattle.

media

Painter of portraits and animals; book illustrator

exhibitions

St Ives Show Day March 1914, March 1915

references

St Ives Times 30 Jan 1914, 27 Mar 1914, 19 Mar 1915

Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall (p334)

Whybrow (1994) St Ives (1901-10 list)

Artist Biographies (2015)