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Winifred
AUSTEN, RI, RE (1876 to1964)
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Winifred AUSTEN, RI, RE (1876 to 1964)
Winifred Maria Louise Austen
Winifred Marie Louise Austen (1876&endash;1964),
illustrator, painter, etcher and aquatint engraver of
birds and animals., was born in Ramsgate, Kent, in 1876,
the only daughter of Josiah Austin, a Cornish naval
surgeon, and his wife, Fanny, née Mann. She
altered the spelling of her surname from Austin to Austen
at the time she began to exhibit. In 1892 the family
moved to Hornsey, London, and Austin attended the London
County Council School of Arts and Crafts, studying under
Mrs J. M. Jopling and Cuthbert Swan, an animal painter;
she also spent time sketching at the zoological gardens
in Regent's Park. In 1899 at the age of twenty-three
Austen showed a picture of a lion at the Royal Academy;
in all she exhibited more than seventy pictures at the
academy, the last in 1961 when she was eighty-five. While
there she met the artists Charles Detmold and his twin
brother, Maurice, who introduced her to the oriental
influences so frequently present in Austen's work.
Although she also worked in both oils and watercolours
Austen is most highly regarded as an etcher. In all she
made some two hundred etched plates, beginning in 1906
with a series entitled The White Heron. She had
particular feeling for birds and small mammals, and the
naturalist Sir Peter Scott said 'she was certainly the
best bird-etcher of this century. She also experimented
with aquatint and colour printing. In 1902 Austen was
elected to the Society of Women Artists, then in 1907 to
the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, and
to the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in
1933. She was also a fellow of the Royal Zoological
Society from 1903. Such was Austen's success that she
required an agent; she employed Oliver O'Donnell Frick
(1868/9&endash;1923), an American from Maryland, for this
purpose, and married him in 1917. After leaving her home
in Ealing, Austen and her husband lived briefly in both
Yeovil, Somerset, and Dorking, Surrey, before moving to
Suffolk in 1922 where Frick died from pneumonia the
following year. Subsequently Austen lived in a cottage at
Orford called Wayside. Innumerable pets and animal waifs
also became subjects for her work. A printing press was
kept in the kitchen. Although reclusive, Austen was
keenly involved with the Royal Society for the Protection
of Birds and the Havergate Island bird sanctuary Winifred
Austen died at 38 Southborough Road, Bickley, Kent, on 1
November 1964.
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better images sizes etc or full condition
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Snipe
Nice quality proof etching ; signed in
pencil on fine laid paper Image size 21 .3
cm x 21.5 cm £250 inc unframed
Seems to have been kept in a folio no
sunning no fading as the day when printed
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( being Wiltshire
the main town is the high numbers. and
downhill)...We have a one hour free
parking slot outside the door and
deregulated parking a few yards
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2-3 High
Street
Tisbury,
WILTSHIRE
SP3
6PS.
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