Lilian Lancaster (artist)
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Lilian Adelaide Lancaster (5 October 1886 – 3 June 1973) was a British teacher and artist and a former pupil of Walter Sickert.[1]
She was born in Chiswick in London in 1886,[2] one of two daughters of Margaret, an Irish comedienne, and William James Lancaster, a theatrical manager.[3] Her older sister, Theodora Margaret Sothern Lancaster (1885-1977) married the sculptor Edmund Thomas Wyatt Ware (1883-1960).[4] Her aunt, after whom she was named, was the actress and humorous cartographer Lilian Lancaster. Primarily a figure and still-life painter,[1] Lancaster studied at the Westminster School of Art 1908-1911 where her Teacher was Walter Sickert and the Slade School of Fine Art (1909-1910) where her teachers included Henry Tonks and Frederick Brown. Her son, the architect Stephen Gardiner later recalled that his mother was Sickert's favourite pupil, and that he gifted her one of his paintings, Reverie, a half-length nude on a bed,[5] painted during his Camden Town period. She was influenced by the French Impressionists, with Renoir being a particular influence on her own work, and by the works of Vincent van Gogh.[6]