Edith Helena Adie

Edith Helena Adie (1865-1947) was a British painter known for her watercolours.[1]

Edith Helena Adie
Born(1865-12-27)27 December 1865
London, England
Died16 May 1947(1947-05-16) (aged 81)
Tonbridge, England
Known forPainting

Biography

Adie was born on 27 December 1865 in the Streatham section of London.[2] She was a student at the South Kensington Art School, the Westminster School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art.[3][4] She painted landscapes and garden scenes in Taormina and Bordighera Italy.[2] Adie also traveled to Australia.[3] She exhibited at the New Society of Painters in Water Colours and the Royal Academy of Arts between 1893 and 1912 and also with the Royal Society of British Artists.[1][4][5] She was a member of the British Watercolour Society.[3]

Adie died on 16 May 1947 in Tonbridge.[3]

  • Bank of rhododendrons
  • A garden by the Italian lakes
  • Red and Blue Waterlillies
  • The lake, Hever

References
  1. "Edith Helena Adie". AskArt. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  2. "Edith Helena Adie". RKD (in Dutch). Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  3. "Adie, Edith Helena". Suffolk Artists. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  4. Christopher Wood (1978). The Dictionary of Victorian Painters. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 0 902028 72 3.
  5. "Adie, Edith Helena". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Retrieved 27 May 2021.

Further reading
  • Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900–1950 by Grant M. Waters, 1975, published by Eastbourne Fine Art
  • The Dictionary of British Women Artists by Sara Gray, 2009, published by The Lutterworth Press, isbn: 97807 18830847
  • A History and Dictionary of British Flower Painters 1650-1950 by Josephine Walpole, 2006, published by The Antique Collectors' Club, isbn: 1 85149 504 5
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