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1837 Boston, Massachusetts - 1917 Florence, Italy. Known for: Peasant genre painting, botanic studies, book illustration.
Alexander, "Francesca", also known as Ester Frances. Ester Alexander, of Boston, was known for her kind deeds, her "sensitive" drawings of the people and landscape of Italy, especially the peasants... Read full biography
Alexander, "Francesca", also known as Ester Frances. Ester Alexander, of Boston, was known for her kind deeds, her "sensitive" drawings of the people and landscape of Italy, especially the peasants whose folk songs she recorded and who became subjects of her poetry. She was discovered by John... Read full biography
Alexander, "Francesca", also known as Ester Frances. Ester Alexander, of Boston, was known for her kind deeds, her "sensitive" drawings of the people and landscape of Italy, especially the peasants whose folk songs she recorded and who became subjects of her poetry. She was discovered by John Ruskin, prominent English artist and writer who was associated with the Aesthetic Movement in Europe. He purchased 122 drawings from Alexander and referred to her as his "Sorella" and to her mother as his... Read full biography
Alexander, "Francesca", also known as Ester Frances. Ester Alexander, of Boston, was known for her kind deeds, her "sensitive" drawings of the people and landscape of Italy, especially the peasants whose folk songs she recorded and who became subjects of her poetry. She was discovered by John Ruskin, prominent English artist and writer who was associated with the Aesthetic Movement in Europe. He purchased 122 drawings from Alexander and referred to her as his "Sorella" and to her mother as his "Mammina". She lived most of her life in Italy with her expatriate parents, Francis Alexander and Lucia Gray Swett Alexander. Her father was a self-taught portrait painter, and her mother was a domineering woman from a wealthy Massachusetts family,... Read full biography
Alexander, "Francesca", also known as Ester Frances. Ester Alexander, of Boston, was known for her kind deeds, her "sensitive" drawings of the people and landscape of Italy, especially the peasants whose folk songs she recorded and who became subjects of her poetry. She was discovered by John Ruskin, prominent English artist and writer who was associated with the Aesthetic Movement in Europe. He purchased 122 drawings from Alexander and referred to her as his "Sorella" and to her mother as his "Mammina". She lived most of her life in Italy with her expatriate parents, Francis Alexander and Lucia Gray Swett Alexander. Her father was a self-taught portrait painter, and her mother was a domineering woman from a wealthy Massachusetts family, who spent much of her time doing charity work and making sure that her daughter was protected from outsid... Read full biography
Francesca Esther Frances (Fanny) Alexander - Artist Info
About Francesca Esther Frances (Fanny) Alexander: Keywords
Keywords (21)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
Art Media
- •Ink
- •Oil Paint
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Botanics, Plant Life
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Expatriate from USA or Canada
- •Italy Before World War I
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Isabella Stewart Gardner Collection
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty
- •Self Taught, Autodidact
Exhibition of Museum
- •Boston Athenaeum