ARTIST: Florence Mary Anderson (british, 1874 - 1930)
NAME: Elves & the Shoemaker
MEDIUM: gouache and watercolor on board
CONDITION: Excellent. Framed under glass.
SIGHT SIZE: 11 x 9 inches / 27 x 22 cm
FRAME SIZE: 20 x 17 inches / 50 x 43 cm
SIGNED: Lower right
NOTE: Illustration is a scene from “The Elves and the Shoemaker” fairy tale.
PROVENANCE: Susanin's Auctioneers, Sale 2014/12/06, Lot 1446152
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
SKU#: 114503
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Florence Mary Anderson (british, 1874 - 1930)
Florence Mary Anderson was an English artist, book illustrator, wood engraver and children's author who flourished between 1914 and 1930. She also illustrated under her maiden name of Molly MacArthur or Florence Mary MacArthur.
Her work was influenced by the British school of Fairy Art, a genre of painting and illustration featuring fairies and fairy tale settings, often with extreme attention to detail. The genre is most closely associated with the Victorian era in Great Britain, but has experienced a contemporary revival. Moreover, fairy painting was also seen as escapism for Victorians.
Though she wrote some books, it is as an illustrator, in watercolour and black and white, of children's books and annuals that Anderson is chiefly remembered. Her first major commission appears to have been an extensive suite of colour and monotone illustrations prepared for The Dream-Pedlar published in 1914. Anderson received further substantial commissions throughout the decade that followed, including major suites of colour and monotone illustrations prepared for: The Travelling Companions (1915); Little Dwarf Nose & The Magic Whistle (1916); The Black Princess and other Fairy Tales from Brazil (1916); The Cradle Ship (1916); The Magic Kiss (1916); My Fairyland (1916); Nutcracker and Mouse King (1916); Adventures in Magic Land and Other Tales (1917); The Rainbow Twins (1919); Valentine and Orson: The Twin Knights of France (1919); Secrets of the Flowers (1919); The Password to Fairyland (1920); and The Singing Fish (1922).