Millie Walters Anson
Portrait, miniatures and botanical artist
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Minnie Walters Anson (20 February 1875 – 23 March 1959) was a British portrait painter (in formal and informal styles) and created miniatures, as well as technical botanical illustrations, during the 1920s onwards.[2][3][4]
Minnie Walters Anson | |
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| Born | 20 February 1875[1] |
| Died | 23 March 1959 |
| Education | Lambeth School of Art |
| Known for | portraits, miniatures, botanical illustrations |
| Notable work | 300 plates in Stebbing, M.E. (1934). Colour in The Garden (1st ed.), Princess Elizabeth (1927), Walter Adams (miniature) |
| Spouse(s) | Chris Adams, artist and photographer |
Education and life
Her art education was at Lambeth School of Art, London where she won awards.[2] She lived at 8 Lewin Road and also 22 Kempshot Road, London.[2] She married fellow artist, photographer, Chris Adams who had been commissioned to make paintings for Queen Mary's Doll's House.[5] She died on 25 March 1959.
Selected works
One of her miniatures (Walter Adams) is held in the archive of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers.[6] Anson's formal portrait of King George V and more relaxed subjects Dutch Bulb Merchant, A Breton Pilot and the semi-formal family portrait of an actress mother and child: Lady Neville Pearson (Gladys Cooper) and Sally are in the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth.[7]
In 2009, her multi-media portrait of Princess Elizabeth as a small child in 1927, was sold at auction, along with a 1925 two-view portrait of a young male actor in costume, along with thirteen detailed botanical studies of orchid flowers.[8]
Anson was the illustrator of 300 plates in the 1934 book 'Colour in The Garden' by M.E. Stebbing.[9][10] She worked on similar books or collections with Gertrude Jekyll and George F Tinley.[11] And she painted postcard images, such as of Priory Mansions Hotel, Bournemouth.[11]
Anson also painted Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the Queen Mother) as a young woman in 1937.[12]
Collections
Anson's art is sold in private auctions[8] but also examples of her work are held in the