Mary Lemon Waller was a British portrait painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Current notable public references identify her as Mary Lemon Fowler before marriage to Samuel Edmund Waller, and she is typically described as a painter of society portraits and children.[4][5]
Key points about her life and work:
- Born in 1851 in Bideford, England, and educated at the Royal Academy; she exhibited there from 1877 to 1904.[4]
- Married the artist Samuel Edmund Waller in 1874 and became known as Mary Lemon Waller; her professional work focused on portraiture and genre scenes.[3][4]
- Her work included portraits that appeared in major venues and collections, and she was associated with circles of Victorian and Edwardian British art.[3][4]
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V Fowler, Mary L. V Waller-Fowler, Mary Lemon U Nationalities: British (modern) ( preferred English Roles: artist ( preferred painter Gender: female Birth and Death Places: Born: Bideford (Devon, England, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)
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www.snyderfuneralhomes.comOil painting on canvas, Winifred Margaret Watson-Armstrong (1894-1912) by Mary Lemon Waller (Bideford 1851-1931), circa 1908. A full-length portrait of a young girl, the daughter of William Watson-Armstrong (1863-1941) and his first wife Winifreda Adye (1860-1914), standing on the beach at Bamburgh, turned slightly to the right and looking back at the viewer, her hands resting on a golf club. She wears a white blouse and dark skirt, with a red scarf and a red ribbon round a straw hat. Mary...
www.nationaltrustcollections.org.ukMARY LEMON WALLER (BRITISH, FL.1881-1929)
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