About Eleanor Best
Lived 1875 – 1957 (aged 81–82). Eleanor Best was a painter.
Eleanor Best (1875–1957) was a British oil painter known for her portrait and figure paintings.
Biography Best was born in Amport in Hampshire and studied at the Slade School of Art in London during 1909. She continued to live in London throughout her life, settling in Richmond.
Best exhibited at the Royal Academy several times, with the New English Art Club and also at the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. The Contemporary Art Society hold examples of her work and she was included in the 1986 Slade Ladies exhibition held by the Parkin Gallery. For several years she was a member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists.
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Who was Eleanor Best?
English artist (1875–1957)
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Eleanor Best was born in 1875 in Amport.
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Eleanor Best died in 1957.
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Eleanor Best was a painter.
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