Helen Allingham (1848 – 1926) English artist ( Victorian era) ✽ Francis Goya / Scarborough fair

Thank you everyone for watching and for comments! ༺❀༻ All the best Helen Allingham (1848 – 1926) was an English watercolour painter and illustrator of the Victorian era. ♡♡ Displaying a talent for art from an early age, she drew inspiration from her maternal grandmother Sarah Smith Herford and aunt Laura Herford—both accomplished artists. She attended the National Art Training School in London—now the Royal College of Art. In 1874, she produced 12 illustrations for the serialised version of Thomas Hardy‘s novel “Far from the Madding Crowd“. In 1890, she became the first woman to become a full member of the Royal Watercolour Society. Helen Allingham (née Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson) (26 September 1848 -- 28 September 1926) was an English watercolour painter and illustrator of the Victorian era. Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson was born in Britain on 26 September 1848, at Swadlincote in Derbyshire, England, the daughter of a medical doc