Mariquita Jenny Moberly

Mariquita Jenny Moberly
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Born
Mariquita Jenny Phillips

(1855-11-02)2 November 1855
Deptford, London, England
Died1 November 1937(1937-11-01) (aged 81)
Mitcham, Surrey, England
Known forPainting
SpouseHerbert Guy Moberly[1]
The Duet
Fisherman Repairing Nets

Mariquita Jenny Moberly RI , née Phillips, (2 November 1855 – 1 November 1937) was an English artist, working in oil paints and watercolours.[2][3]

Biography

Moberly was born on 2 November 1855[4] to John Phillips and Jane Atkins Phillips at Deptford in London.[5] Her name, mariquita, (literally, "Little Mary") means ladybird in Spanish.[6][self-published source]

Moberly studied in Germany and under Carolus-Duran in Paris.[7][8] She painted portraits, figure studies, animals and landscapes in oils, watercolours and pastels.[7][8] Moberly was a member of the New Society of Artists and exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, with the New Watercolour Society and at both the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol.[7] She lived in Epsom, and later Mitcham.[3]

In March 2013, a number of her watercolour paintings, in private possession, of a variety of subjects, were shown in the BBC television programme Antiques Roadshow.[3] These included a 1918 self-portrait and a picture of a dog that reputedly belonged to Ernest Shackleton, along with photographs of her paintings of dogs known to be his.[3]

Her works are in a number of public collections, including The Secret Path in the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum.[9]

She died in Mitcham, Surrey, on 1 November 1937, one day before her 82nd birthday.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 14 May 2013.
  2. ^ "Best Friends". Leighton Fine Art. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  3. ^ a b c d "Chatham Historic Dockyard". Antiques Roadshow. Series 35. Episode 16. 24 March 2013. BBC. Retrieved 24 March 2013.
  4. ^ London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906
  5. ^ Wright, Christopher; Catherine May Gordon; Mary Peskett Smith (2006). British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Yale University Press. p. 569. ISBN 0300117302.
  6. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014). A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots: Volume II (H - Z and Appendix). Xlibris Corporation. p. 175. ISBN 9781493191116. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  7. ^ a b c Grant M. Waters (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900–1950. Eastbourne Fine Art.
  8. ^ a b Adrian Vincent (1991). A Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Artists. David & Charles. ISBN 0715398237.
  9. ^ "The Secret Path". Art UK. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
  10. ^ "Deaths". The Times. London, England. 2 November 1937. p. 1. Moberly.—On Monday, Nov. 1, 1937, at Ravensbury Gardens, Morden Road,Mitcham, Surrey, Mariquita Jenny, widow of Herbert Guy Moberly, aged 82.
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