Hilda Fearon
Hilda Fearon was a painter of landscape and figure subjects. Born in 1878 at Banstead, Surrey, Fearon began drawing and modelling while still at school, later studying in Dresden under Robert H. Sterl 1897-9, at the Slade School 1899-1904 and later under Algernon Talmage at St Ives. Her work was exhibited at the R.A. 1908-17, at the Paris Salon and at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1914. She died at the age of 39 in London. A large oil - The Tea Party, 1916 - can be found in the Tate Collection, presented by Algernon Talmage in 1936 [ref no. N04832]. www.whytes.ie