Hispanopedia Wiki(Alexandra) Mary Hayllar later Mary Watkins Wells (1862 – 1950) was a British artist from a family that included five talented painters. Led by their father, she and her sisters were trained in skills that saw them exhibiting at the Royal Academy.
Life
Mary Hayllar was born in 1862 in Mecklenburgh Square, in London, to James Hayllar and Ellen Phoebe (born Cavell).[1] Her father was a trained painter and in time she had eight siblings, four sisters and four brothers. They lived at Castle Priory in Wallingford and her father arranged painting lessons for them starting at ten and ending at four. Their paintings were of the people, places and scenes around them. The girls would also enjoy a leisurely life of tennis, gardening and painting.[2] She and her sisters learned to swim and to row and her father would serve as cox when they rowed 27 miles to the Henley Royal Regatta.[3]
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Her father and three of her sisters exhibited numerous paintings in the Royal Academy. Mary's and Jessica's first paintings to be exhibited were in 1880. Jessica's painting was called "Going to my uncles" and Mary's painting was called "For a Good Boy". Her father had first exhibited there thirty years before and they all continued as they were joined by her sister Edith in 1882 and Kate in 1885.[4] Mary was the least prolific of the artist sisters as her paintings of children and domestic scenes were only at the academy until 1885.[5] Her paintings which are rare are known for laden tea tables, they are included in For a Good Boy, Tennis Party and Breakfast.[6] In total she painted about 24 paintings during her painting period that lasted about five years.[7]
Mary married Henry Watkins Wells in 1887 and ceased exhibiting paintings.[5][6] She left the family home but not Walligford. She must have visited as she and her children appear in her sisters paintings. Her husband was the mayor of Wallingford in 1902. They employed nine domestic servants and one of them later reported that their home had lots of paintings but Mary never painted. It is thought that Mary thought that she was well taught rather than a talented artist.[7]
Su madre tenía como pariente a la enfermera Edith Cavell , quien fue fusilada [1] y su hijo mayor, Henry Maurice Watkins Wells, también murió durante la Primera Guerra Mundial en 1916. [3]
Murió en 1950. [1] Su pintura " Lawn Tennis Season" se encuentra en la Southampton City Art Gallery . [8]
Vida privada
Mary Hayllar y Henry tuvieron seis hijos. Dora Watkins nació en 1886 y Henry Maurice en 1888. Su segunda hija, Muriel, nació en 1891 y se convirtió en Muriel McMullan en 1913 cuando se casó con un médico. Beatrice fue su cuarta hija, que se convirtió en Beatice Lilley (y luego en Collard) y su quinta hija, Joyce Mary, se convirtió en Joyce Mary Lilley. Su último hijo, Guy, nació en 1903. [3]
Referencias
- ^ abc Matthew, HCG; Harrison, B., eds. (23 de septiembre de 2004). "Hayllar Family" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (edición en línea). Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/73659 . Consultado el 8 de julio de 2023 . (Se requiere suscripción o membresía a una biblioteca pública del Reino Unido).
- ^ "CLARA". 20 de agosto de 2018. Archivado desde el original el 20 de agosto de 2018. Consultado el 8 de julio de 2023 .
- ^ abc "Henry Maurice Watkins Wells — Magdalen War Memorial". slowdusk.magd.ox.ac.uk . Consultado el 8 de julio de 2023 .
- ^ Graves, Algernon (1905). La Real Academia de las Artes; un diccionario completo de colaboradores y su obra desde su fundación en 1769 hasta 1904. Bibliotecas de la Universidad de California. Londres: H. Graves and co., ltd. [etc.]
- ^ ab "Leicester Galleries | A Bit of Sunlight" (Galerías de Leicester | Un poco de luz solar). www.leicestergalleries.com . Consultado el 8 de julio de 2023 .
- ^ ab "UNA VISIÓN DE ARCADIA – UNA IMPORTANTE COLECCIÓN PRIVADA INGLESA". Sotherby's . 2022 . Consultado el 8 de julio de 2023 .
- ^ ab Hayllar, Mary Gabrielle (2012). Framing the Hayllar Sisters: a multi-genre biography of four English Victorian painters (Tesis de tesis). Universidad de Nueva Gales del Sur (UNSW) en Sídney. doi :10.26190/unsworks/15990. hdl :1959.4/52458.
- ^ "La temporada de tenis sobre césped | Art UK". artuk.org . Consultado el 8 de julio de 2023 .
Enlaces externos
1 obra de arte de Mary Hayllar o posterior en el sitio Art UK