Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1871 – 1945) was an English artist artist known for her paintings, book illustrations and for a number of works in stained glass.
In 1909, Ernest Brown, of the Leicester Galleries, commissioned a series of 28 watercolour illustrations to Tennyson‘s Idylls of the King, which Fortescue-Brickdale painted over two years. They were exhibited at the gallery in 1911, and 24 of them were published the following year in a deluxe edition of the first four Idylls.
Fortescue-Brickdale, British illustrator of the Pre-Raphaelite school. Here is one of her masterpiece The Idylls of the King. First edition, published by Hodder Stoughton, London, 1911.
Art Gallery: Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale – The Idylls of the King 1911
