About Ellen Gertrude Cohen
Lived 1860 – 1946 (aged 85). Ellen Gertrude Cohen was a British illustrator.
Ellen Gertrude Cohen (25 August 1860 – 4 May 1946) was a British painter and illustrator.
Biography Cohen was born in 1860 in Marylebone to Barnet Soloman Cohen, a merchant, and Eliza Myers Cohen. She attended the Slade School of Art and the Royal Academy of London. She also studied in Paris under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens.
She exhibited her work at the Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Painters in Water and Oil Colors, and the Paris Salon.
Cohen exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
Cohn created illustrations for a variety of British publications including The Strand Magazine.
Cohen died in Rome in 1946, where she was living at a Franciscan convent.
Images from the Illustrated London News
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British painter and illustrator
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Ellen Gertrude Cohen was born on 25 August 1860 in London.
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Ellen Gertrude Cohen died on 4 May 1946 in Rome.
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Ellen Gertrude Cohen was an illustrator.
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Ellen Gertrude Cohen was British.
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