Description
Lilian Andrews (née Lilian Rusbridge; 2 August 1878 – c.1962) was a British artist who specialised in creating paintings of birds and animals.
Andrews was born in Brighton,where her father was an inventor and engineer. She studied at the Brighton School of Art where he talents shone, winning a bronze medal for design. Awarded an Art Masters’ Teaching Certificate, Andrews was teaching art by the age of twenty-two. She married Douglas Sharpus Andrews (1885-1944) a fellow artist and teacher, who unusually for the time was 7 years her junior.
Working in pastels and watercolours Andrews painted landscapes and depicted birds and animals. Andrews had solo exhibitions in Leeds, Bradford, Newcastle upon Tyne and in Bournemouth and Brighton. Between 1912 and 1960 she exhibited some 39 pictures at the Royal Academy in London, the majority of which were bird paintings. She also exhibited with the Royal Scottish Academy during 1954 and 1955 and, in 1952, with the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and at the Paris Salon. For a time Andrews taught at the Brighton College of Art but after her marriage to Douglas Sharpus Andrews in 1910, the principal of Leeds School of Art, she also lived in Leeds, Sheffield, Bath and, latterly, London. In May 1927 Andrews presented a radio programme on William Blake for the BBC.
Her work is found in numerous public and private collections world-wide, including The Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, Leeds Art Gallery and Nottingham Art Gallery.
Lilian died in Surrey in January 1962.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.