Blanche Jenkins

Blanche Jenkins (active 1872–1915) was a British portrait painter.[1]

Jenkins was active as an exhibitor at the Society of British Artists and at the Royal Academy, where she showed some 49 works from 1872 onwards.[2] She was also a member of the Society of Lady Artists.[3] She exhibited her work at the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[4]

Her painting Her Morning Ride was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[5]

She died in London.

  • Portrait of a child
  • Cupid with roses
  • Miss Georgie

References
  1. "Blanche Jenkins". RKD. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  2. Brian Stewart & Mervyn Cutten (1997). The Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1 85149 173 2.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  3. "Jenkins, Blanche". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Index. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00094679. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  4. Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  5. Sparrow, Walter Shaw (1905). Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
  • Catalogue of an exhibition of pictures by Miss Blanche Jenkins., London : Doré Gallery


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