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