About Margaret Barnard
Lived 1898 – 1992 (aged 93–94). Margaret Barnard was a British painter.
Margaret Helen Barnard (1898–1992) was a British painter and linocut maker.
Barnard was born in Bengal, where her father was serving with the Indian Police Force. At the age of seven she returned to Britain for her education, and went to Bath High School, and St. Leonard's Fife.
Barnard studied at The Glasgow School of Art from 1917 to 1923. She then moved to London, where she attended the Grosvenor School of Modern Art like her contemporary Sybil Andrews, studying under Claude Flight.
In 1924 she married artist Robert George Sang Mackechnie (1894-1975), who would join the British art group the Seven and Five Society in 1927.
Barnard died in 1992.
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British painter (1898–1992)
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Margaret Barnard was born in 1898 in Bengal.
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