Marianne Stokes, nee Preindlesberger, met Adrian Stokes in Pont Aven, Brittany in 1883 and married the following year. Born in Austria, Marianne had studied in Munich and Paris. She visited Pont... Read full biography
Marianne Stokes, nee Preindlesberger, met Adrian Stokes in Pont Aven, Brittany in 1883 and married the following year. Born in Austria, Marianne had studied in Munich and Paris. She visited Pont Aven, a poor isolated, rural community, to find, with many of her contemporaries, sources for a 'plein... Read full biography
Marianne Stokes, nee Preindlesberger, met Adrian Stokes in Pont Aven, Brittany in 1883 and married the following year. Born in Austria, Marianne had studied in Munich and Paris. She visited Pont Aven, a poor isolated, rural community, to find, with many of her contemporaries, sources for a 'plein air' social realism, subject matter popularized by Jules Bastien Lepage and Jean Francois Millet. Marianne and Adrian Stokes visited Cornwall in 1886 at the behest of Stanhope Forbes, founder of the... Read full biography
Marianne Stokes, nee Preindlesberger, met Adrian Stokes in Pont Aven, Brittany in 1883 and married the following year. Born in Austria, Marianne had studied in Munich and Paris. She visited Pont Aven, a poor isolated, rural community, to find, with many of her contemporaries, sources for a 'plein air' social realism, subject matter popularized by Jules Bastien Lepage and Jean Francois Millet. Marianne and Adrian Stokes visited Cornwall in 1886 at the behest of Stanhope Forbes, founder of the Newlyn School. They remained in Cornwall moving to the artist community in St. Ives where they lived through the 1890's. By the early years of the twentieth century they were living in Chelsea and in 1921 moved to Grantham Place off Park Lane.... Read full biography
Marianne Stokes, nee Preindlesberger, met Adrian Stokes in Pont Aven, Brittany in 1883 and married the following year. Born in Austria, Marianne had studied in Munich and Paris. She visited Pont Aven, a poor isolated, rural community, to find, with many of her contemporaries, sources for a 'plein air' social realism, subject matter popularized by Jules Bastien Lepage and Jean Francois Millet. Marianne and Adrian Stokes visited Cornwall in 1886 at the behest of Stanhope Forbes, founder of the Newlyn School. They remained in Cornwall moving to the artist community in St. Ives where they lived through the 1890's. By the early years of the twentieth century they were living in Chelsea and in 1921 moved to Grantham Place off Park Lane. Marianne, on her return to London where she had lived in 1883, turned to more varied subject matter; portraiture, religious and historical subj... Read full biography
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985
Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie