Frances Bannerman

Frances Bannerman (née Jones) (1855 – 1944) was a Canadian painter and poet. She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1855. She was the youngest daughter of Lt. Governor Alfred G. Jones and Margaret Wiseman Stairs.[1] She grew up in what is now the Waegwoltic Club. She produced watercolours, oils, and black and white illustrations. In 1886, at age 31, she married Hamlet Bannerman, a London painter, in Halifax and that year they moved to Great Marlowe, England.[2] Her best-known poem is "An Upper Chamber", which is included in the Oxford Book of English Verse.

She was elected an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy in 1882.[3] She moved to Italy in 1901, and stayed there until the Second World War forced her to leave. She returned to Torquay, England, where she died in 1944.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Bannerman, Frances Jones".
  2. ↑ Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Archived 2008-06-25 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ "Canadian Women Artists History Initiative : Artist Database : Artists : BANNERMAN, Frances Jones". cwahi.concordia.ca. Retrieved 2017-07-27.
  4. ↑ "Bannerman, Frances Jones".


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