Mary Elizabeth Duffield-Rosenberg

Mary Elizabeth Duffield
Born Mary Elizabeth Rosenberg
1819
Bath, Somerset, England
Died 1914
Nationality British
Known for Painting
Style Floral art
Spouse(s) William Duffield

Mary Elizabeth Duffield, née Rosenberg (1819 – 1914) was a British flower painter and the wife of the still life painter William Duffield.

Life and work

She was born in Bath as the eldest daughter of Mr. T. E. Rosenberg, and became a painter of fruit and flowers. She was a member of the Institute of Painters in Water-Colours and married the still life painter William Duffield in 1850.[1]

Duffield exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[2]

Her paintings In Memoriam and The Child Handel were included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[3]

Mary Elizabeth Duffield - Chrysanthemums

References

  1. ↑ Fagan 1888, p. 132.
  2. ↑ Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  3. ↑ Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Fagan, Louis Alexander (1888). "Duffield, William". In Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography. 16. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 132.
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  • Mary Rosenberg in the ODNB
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