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Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale Collection Throughout the page that follows, we have presented a selection of vintage plates from Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale.
These images are drawn from his contributions to various editions of The Illustrated London News and a variety of other titles.
We have developed a range of Giftware that includes images reproduced from the 1st Edition plates in our collection to ensure the most accurate form, line and colour possible. We have utilised a high definition capture and reproduction technique for the images - in contrast to the low definition representation necessary for this website. The illustrations are available as cards, infants' clothing, T-shirts and unmatted, matted or framed prints (8x6", 10x8", 12x10", 15x10" and 30 x 20" images sizes). Pricing starts at US$4 for single Gift Cards (US$18 for select packs of 6) and 10 x 8" prints (double-matted and framed) begin at US$60. Further details on those reproduction images are available at the Giftware section of this site.
Should you wish to discuss an order, please contact us at ThePeople@SpiritoftheAges.com referencing your request with the Stock Code of the plate, or plates in question and a brief description (and rest assured, we do accept payment through PayPal or Direct Bank Deposit).
In the meantime, enjoy browsing our selection of genuine vintage and antique plates.
The Artwork of Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1871-1945) was born into a family of means and she took her education in art at the Royal Academy school. It was while attending the Royal Academy that she met Byam Shaw - a prominent artist - whom was not only a close friend, but also an artistic influence.
The comment from The Times (14 March, 1945) following her death provides a contemporary summary of her life and achievements, thus:
A Versatile Artist. Miss Fortesque Crickdale RWS, painter, modeller, and designed of stained glass, and black and white artist died on March 10th as briefly announced in our columns yesterday. She was the last survivor of the late Pre-Raphaelite painters, who though - or possibly because - they did not come into personal contact with the original Brotherhood, carried some of their principles to extremes. Her nearest affinity was with the late Byam Shaw, in the period of his Loves Baubles, and she was at the height of her reputation about the same time as he.
It was the allegorical side of Pre-Raphaelitism that Miss Fortesque Brickdale inherited, and her work was distinguished by brilliance of colour and great fidelity to detail. One of her most successful pictures The Deceitfulness of Riches, is crowded with detail of patterned garment and fruiting trees. As the title suggests there is often a moral of symbolic meaning behind her pictures. Eleanor Fortesque Brickdale, youngest daughter of the late Mr M I Fortesque Brickdale, barrister of Lincoln's Inn was born in 1871. She studied at Crystal Palace School of Art, and at the Royal Academy Schools, where in 1896 she won a £40 prize for her design for the decoration of a public building. Her first appearance in a Royal Academy Summer Exhibition was made the following year. She continued to exhibit there fairly frequently, her contributions including several portraits.
Her pictures were also seen at the Royal Watercolour Society, but the highly wrought nature of her work kept her from being a prolific exhibition artist. Decorative illustration was her natural bent, and typical works of hers were The Forerunner in which Leonardo da Vinci was depicted showing his model of a lying machine to the Duke of Milan, and The First visit of Simonetta. For the first British Empire Exhibition in 1824 she painted the reredos in the Chapel of Remembrance. She is represented in the permanent collection of Liverpool, Leeds, and Birmingham.
As might be expected from the character of her pictures with their brilliant colours and sharp drawing, Miss Fortesque Brickdale was successful as a designer of stained glass, and there is a window by her in Bristol Cathedral. In his English Pre-Raphaelite Painters, their associates, and successors in 1910 Percy Bates says that she should do much in the future to exemplify the still living force of Pre-Raphaelitism. Whether or not that prediction was fulfilled, she deserves to be remembered for her consistent fidelity to the tradition.
Pencil Study of a Rose Bush in Flower (1902)
The Idylls of the King (1902)
The Legends of the Flowers (The Illustrated London News, 1924) The contributions prepared by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
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