Elizabeth Adela Armstrong Stanhope Forbes - Artist Info

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    The following information is from the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative
    http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=18

    Elizabeth Armstrong Forbes
    Born :Kingston, Ontario, 1859Died: Newlyn, Cornwall, 1912
    Biography synopsis
    As a young girl Elizabeth Adela Stanhope Forbes (née Armstrong) studied at the South Kensington Art Schools. She returned to Canada and studied at the Art Students League (1877-80) with William Chase, who encouraged her to study in Munich with Frank Duveneck and J. Frank Currier, and she went from there to Pont-Aven, Brittany, in 1882.

    She began to use local people as models, and she sent work to the Royal Institute in ...

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