Mary Lemon Waller | |
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Born | Mary Lemon Fowler 1851 Bideford, Devon, England |
Died | 1931 (aged 79–80) |
Nationality | British |
Education | Royal Academy Schools |
Known for | Portrait Paintings |
Spouse | Samuel Edmund Waller |
Mary Lemon Waller (born Mary Lemon Fowler) (1851–1931)[1] was a British portrait painter, who specialised in child portraits.
Mary Lemon was born to Rev. Hugh Fowler of Burnwood, Gloucestershire.[2] She began her education in art at an Art School in Gloucester, and later studied at the Royal Academy schools.[3] Waller began exhibiting paintings as early as age 20,[4] and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1877 to 1904.[2] She married genre painter Samuel Edmund Waller in 1874; the couple lived in London and had one son.[4] Waller exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[5] In 1925, Waller became a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.[6]
Waller's works can be seen at several venues in the United Kingdom: Cragside, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and Somerville College, Oxford.[1]