Hanna Rion VER BECK

Mrs Hanna Rion VER BECK
aka VERBECK nee RION
1875
1924

With her husband Frank VER BECK, she came to St Ives in 1913. By November 1914, The St Ives Times reported that the couple had been working in the town "since last mid summer".  Her daughter from a previous marriage was the artist Theresa Rion ABELL

American by birth, she was a STIAC member from 1914-15, and wrote and illustrated children's books as well as painting. After she and Frank parted, she married Alpheus Hervey in 1921. She died shortly afterwards in Bermuda.

media

Painter and writer

works and access

Works include: Great spaces (1914); Cornish Moorland (1914); High Noon, Bermuda (1914)

Book titles include Let's Make a Flower Garden

exhibitions

St Ives Show Day  March 1914

references

St Ives Times 27 Mar 1914, 7 Nov 1914

Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall p350