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Hilda Hechle

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Hechle was an English painter and mountain climber.

She mainly painted mountains in the Swiss Alps, bringing her supplies with her on her climbs.[1] Alongside her landscape paintings, she was also a portrait painter and illustrator.

She mainly painted scenes of mountains[2]

Hechle worked with watercolors, and often painted mountains based on her climbs in the High Alps.[3]

Exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1906 and 1931. Died in April of 1939.[4][1]

Work was exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada[5]

Born 1886 in Brassington Hall, Ashborne, Derby. Died in 1939 in Surrey. Painted landscapes and people, and was an illustrator. Studied at St. John's Wood School of Art and Royal Academies.[6]

In 1925, she had a studio in St. John's Wood in London.[2] In 1927, she had a studio in Swiss Cottage in London.[7]

She lived with her father in Llandrillo yn Rhos in Colwyn Bay, Wales. Her maternal aunt was Mary L. Breakell, a landscape and portrait artist. Hechle began creating art at a young age, exhibiting her art in Liverpool at the age of 15. She and her father later went to Switzerland so that she could create art of the landscapes in Lucerne. They then moved to Meiringen, where she began painting mountains in earnest.[8]

Her work was exhibited at the Alpine Club in England. She went on climbs with her father.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "An Adventurous Painter". Western Mail. 27 January 1925. p. 6. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Life on the Alps in St. John's Wood". Hampstead News. 5 February 1925. p. 5. Retrieved 7 January 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  3. ^ Konody, P. G. (1 February 1925). "Art and Artists. Miss H. Hechle's Alpine Pictures". The Observer. p. 10. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  4. ^ Royal Academy Exhibitors, 1905-1970. EP Publishing Limited. 1973. pp. 25–26. ISBN 978-0-85409-987-0. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  5. ^ Index to National Gallery of Canada exhibition catalogues and checklists, 1880-1930. National Gallery of Canada, Library and Archives. 2007. p. 259. ISBN 978-0-88884-835-2. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  6. ^ Child, Dennis (1994). Painters in the northern counties of England and Wales. Dennis Child. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-9523247-0-6. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
  7. ^ "Mountain Pictures". Daily Mirror. 26 March 1927. p. 11. Retrieved 7 January 2024 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  8. ^ a b "A True Mountain Artist. Miss Hilda Hechle's Alpine Pictures". North Wales Weekly. 25 May 1906. p. 8. Retrieved 8 January 2024.

Rose von Rosthorn-Friedmann

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Rose von Rosthorn-Friedmann was an Austrian alpinist. She was an advocate for female mountaineering.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Burlingham, Frederick (1914). How to become an Alpinist. London: T. W. Laurie, ltd. p. 99. Retrieved 30 December 2023.

Nikoline Werdelin

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Nikoline Werdelin is a Danish dramatist and cartoonist,

In 1984, she won a cartoon competition held by the daily newspaper Politiken with her comic Cafe.

She began writing and directing plays around 1997.

[2] [3] In Danish: [4] [5]


Possible others: Ефименкова, Борислава / Efimenkova, Borislava - collected North Russian laments

Anna Vasil'yevna Rudneva

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1903-1983 Director of the Bureau of Russian Folk Music at the Conservatory (Moscow Conservatory?). Under her leadership there, the group lead a number of "recording expeditions" of traditional music. Her academic specialization was on the Kursk region of Russia.

In 1979, she published a volume of transcriptions of Russian folksong recordings.[1]

born 3 February 1903, died 19 October 1983 Russian musicologist

Attended Moscow Conservatory, where she was a student of Klyment Kvitka, the founder of the school of folklore in Moscow. She graduated from the Conservatory in 1930. Later became a professor at the conservatory and lead their folk choir.

research focus was on Russian folksongs.[2]


References

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  1. ^ Krader, Barbara (1990). "Recent Achievements in Soviet Ethnomusicology, with Remarks on Russian Terminology". Yearbook for Traditional Music. 22: 1–16. doi:10.2307/767926. ISSN 0740-1558. JSTOR 767926. S2CID 193116112.
  2. ^ Gilyarova, Natal′ya Nikolayevna (2001). "Rudneva, Anna Vasil′yevna". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.48221. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. Retrieved 4 January 2024.

Names: Anna Vasil′yevna Rudneva Anna V. Rudneva A.V. Rudneva Anna Vasilievna Rudneva

Zinaida Eval'd

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1894-1942, died from starvation during blockade of Leningrad

musicologist and ethnomusicologist in Russia. In the 1920s, she and her husband made field recordings of music in Northern Russia.

Married Evgenii Gippius, the founder of the Phonogram Archive in Leningrad. [1]

Belorussian.[2]

Names: Zinaida Ewald Z. Ewald Z. V. Evald

References

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  1. ^ Krader, Barbara (1990). "Recent Achievements in Soviet Ethnomusicology, with Remarks on Russian Terminology". Yearbook for Traditional Music. 22: 2. doi:10.2307/767926. ISSN 0740-1558. JSTOR 767926. S2CID 193116112.
  2. ^ The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Grove. 2001. p. 375. ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5. Retrieved 4 January 2024.

Nura Cewari

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In Armenia, she collected Kurdish folk songs which she later published. Published a book on Kurdish folksong, written in Armenian, in 1976. Has also researched folklore of Kurds in Armenia.[1]

Autobio in Kurdish: https://www.saradistribution.com/nuracewari.htm

References

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  1. ^ Krader, Barbara (1990). "Recent Achievements in Soviet Ethnomusicology, with Remarks on Russian Terminology". Yearbook for Traditional Music. 22: 3. doi:10.2307/767926. ISSN 0740-1558. JSTOR 767926. S2CID 193116112.

Names: Nure Dzhauari Neri Dzhauari Nure Jauari Núra Cewarî Nûra Cewarî Noura Javari In Armenian?? Նուրե Ջաուարի

Sofiia Hrytsa

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Ukranian ethnomusicologist Researcher of folk music, did a study on Ukranian dumy.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Krader, Barbara (1990). "Recent Achievements in Soviet Ethnomusicology, with Remarks on Russian Terminology". Yearbook for Traditional Music. 22: 5. doi:10.2307/767926. ISSN 0740-1558. JSTOR 767926. S2CID 193116112.

Valentine Eliot

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Valentine Eliot, frequently attributed to as Mrs. C. J. Eliot, was a woodcarver.

Valentine Chambré was born in 1850. She married Charles James Eliot in 1874.[1]

By 1898, she ran a woodcarving studio, and exhibited her work around the world, including in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London and Chicago.[6]

She taught wood-carving classes, and her students showed their work at Recreative Evening Schools Association annual exhibit.[7]

According to her obituary in the Coventry Herald, her work was purchased by Queen Victoria from an exhibition in Scotland.[8]

She died at the age of 75 in 1926 at Droitwich, Warwickshire.[9]


References

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  1. ^ Fizzard, Allison D. "The Most Beautiful Altar in the Diocese". Prairie History. Spring2022 (7): 18–34. ISSN 2562-8976. Retrieved 5 December 2023.

Lizzie Lawson

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Lizzie Mack (née Lawson) was a children's book writer and illustrator from Great Britain who was active from the 1880s to the 1900s.[1][2][3]

She married Robert Ellice Mack. Her work is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum.[10]

photos

Selected works

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  • Old Proverbs With New Pictures (c. 1881)p182[11]

References

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  1. ^ "Lawson, Lizzie". Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon - Internationale Künstlerdatenbank - Online. K. G. Saur. 2021. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
  2. ^ "M.-Marzouca". British Biographical Index. K. G. Saur. 14 September 2012. pp. 2575–2726. doi:10.1515/9783110914153.2575. ISBN 978-3-11-091415-3. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
  3. ^ Dictionary of British art. Antique Collectors' Club. 1976. p. 303. ISBN 978-0-902028-36-4. Retrieved 5 December 2023.

Lisl Hummel

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Lisl Hummel was an Austrian artist. She was known for her silhouette paper cuts that illustrated children's books and fairytales.[1]

Born in Austria.[1]

Hummel married Henry Borsook. In 1930, Hummel and her husband moved from Toronto to Pasadena, California.[12]

Hummel and Henry had a daughter named Eve in 1929.[13]

[16][17][18][19][20]

References

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  1. ^ a b Almanac of Famous People: A comprehensive reference guide to more than 25,000 famous and infamous newsmakers from Biblical times to the present. Gale Research Co. 1989. p. 972. ISBN 978-0-8103-2784-9. Retrieved 4 December 2023.

Harriet M. Bennett

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Harriet M. Bennett (sometimes spelled Bennet)[1] was a British artist and watercolorist active in London between 1870 and 1921. Her work was published in multiple children's books, and she designed Christmas cards and calendars. Her works focused on scenes of children.[2] She worked in the London area of Forest Hill.[3]

According to the Scranton Tribune, Bennett was the cousin of "Mr. Bessell", the paymaster of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company in 1886.[21]

In 1877, she exhibited in London at the Royal Academy and the New Water-Colour Society.[4]

In 1880, Bennett came in second place in Raphael Tuck & Sons' first Christmas card competition. After this point, she began to illustrate for the Tuck business.[5] She was the illustrator for various Christmas cards designed for the British royal family, including the cards of Queen Victoria, Queen Alexandra, and Queen Mary of Teck.[6][7][8][9]

She may have had a sister named Kate Bennett.[10]

Selected works

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  • All Around the Clock, written by Robert Ellice Mack (1886, E. P. Dutton & Co)[11][12]
  • Queen of the Meadow (1887, E. P. Dutton & Co)[13]
  • When All is Young, written by Robert Ellice Mack (1888, E. P. Dutton & Co)[14]
  • Old Father Time and His Twelve Children, edited by Robert Ellice Mack (1890, E. P. Dutton & Co)[15]
  • Over the Hills Away!, written by Frederick E. Weatherley (1891, Hildesheimer and Faulkner)[16]
  • A Book of Poems and Pastorals, co-illustrated by Alice Havers and Gertrude Hammond (1892)[17]

References

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  1. ^ a b Buday, George (1954). This History of the Christmas Card. p. 216.
  2. ^ a b Frank, Kristiane (2021). "Bennett, Harriet M.". Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon - Internationale Künstlerdatenbank - Online. K. G. Saur. Retrieved 1 December 2023 – via De Gruyter.
  3. ^ a b "A Difficult Sum by Harriet M. Bennett". Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  4. ^ a b Benezit Dictionary Of Artists. Éditions Gründ. 2006. p. 166. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  5. ^ a b "The Home of the Christmas Card". The Ludgate. 11 (62): 176. December 1900. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  6. ^ a b "Christmas Cards for Queens". The Liverpool Weekly Mercury. 25 November 1911. p. 4. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  7. ^ a b "Raphael Tuck and Sons' Christmas Cards and Calendars". Cambridge Evening News. 16 December 1918. p. 4. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  8. ^ a b "Women Make Best Designs for Holiday Cards". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 30 December 1910. p. 4. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  9. ^ a b "The Queen's Peace Card". The Sunday People. 24 November 1918. p. 4. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  10. ^ "Crystal Palace Scholarships". Kentish Mercury. 12 August 1887. p. 6. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
  11. ^ "Christmas Publications". Liverpool Mercury, etc. 26 November 1886. p. 7. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  12. ^ "Books for Children". The Christian Union. Vol. 34, no. 23. 2 December 1886. p. 23.
  13. ^ "Books for Young People". The Publishers' Weekly. 32 (20). PWxyz, LLC: 70. 12 November 1887. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  14. ^ "Holiday Books for Young and Old". The Art Amateur. Vol. 19, no. 6. Open Court Publishing Co. November 1888. p. 142. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  15. ^ "The Christmas Bookshelf". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 38, no. 21–22. 1890. p. 71.
  16. ^ "Current Literature". The Spectator. Vol. 67 Supplement, no. 3308. The Spectator (1828) Limited. 14 November 1891. p. 706.
  17. ^ "With Christmas Books". Book News. 11 (124): 123. December 1892. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
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Willie Ann Smith

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Willie Ann Smith
Black and white photograph of Willie Ann Smith

Willie Ann Smith (née Burnett) was an educator in Goldsboro, North Carolina.[1]

Born 12 Dec 1858, died 14 Feb 1907

Smith was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina.[1] to parents Dolly and John Burnett.[2] She taught at schools in Goldsboro, and wrote poetry.[3]

She was a supporter of the temperance movement. She held the position of "Most Eminent Grand Matron of the M. E. G. C." of the Eastern Star of North Carolina.[1]

She married Ezekiel Ezra Smith in 1875. Together they had a son, E. E. Smith Jr. She died in 1907.[2][1]

Was the treasurer of the North Carolina State Teachers Association.[22]

(Minister) United States Legation and Consul General of Liberia?[23]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Scruggs, Lawson Andrew (1893). Women of distinction: remarkable in works and invincible in character. pp. 298–299. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  2. ^ a b c Caldwell, Arthur Bunyan (1917). History of the American Negro and his institutions;. A. B. Caldwell Publishing Co. p. 259. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  3. ^ a b North Carolina Women: Making History. University of North Carolina Pry. 2007. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-8078-5820-2. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
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