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Maud Marian Wear

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Maud Marian Wear
Born8 December 1873
London, England
Died1955(1955-00-00) (aged 81–82)
Hove, East Sussex
NationalityBritish
Alma materRoyal Academy Schools
Known forPainting

Maud Marian Wear (8 December 1873 – 1955) was a British artist, known as a painter and miniaturist.[1]

Biography

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Wear was born in London to a local women and a wine merchant's clerk from Yorkshire, who late became a newspaper correspondent.[2] Wear was raised in Hackney and privately educated at Eastbourne before entering the Royal Academy Schools in 1896.[3] During her five years at the Academy Schools, Wear won a silver medal for a painting of the draped figure.[2] Subsequently, she combined teaching at the London County Council Central School of Arts and Crafts with an exhibition career that was noted for its portraits and figure studies.[2][3] Wear showed a total of 45 works at the Royal Academy in London and also exhibited with the New English Art Club, the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, the Royal Miniature Society and at the Glasgow Art Gallery, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and the Paris Salon.[2][3] For a time, Wear lived at Blockley in Gloucestershire but moved between several locations in southern England during her life and died at Hove in East Sussex.[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ "Wear, Maud M." Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 31 October 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00195067. ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e Sara Gray (2019). British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts. Dark River. ISBN 978-1-911121-63-3.
  3. ^ a b c d David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 2, M to Z. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0-953260-95-X.