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-- Roberto
>Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 18:32:16 +1000
>From: Ellen Jordan <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Decorative Art: Miss Collingridge
>Sender: VICTORIA 19th-Century British Culture & Society
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>I would be very grateful if any-one could give me any information about a
>decorative artist called Miss Collingridge. In 1874 she had a studio at
>20, King Street, Baker Street, and was sufficiently prosperous to take
>articled pupils, and she was still taking them at the end of the 1880s,
>though she had moved her studio at various times to 13, Dorset Street,
>Portman Square, 30A, Wimpole Street, and 9, Beaumont Street, Portland Place.
> She seems to have undertaken a considerable variety of decorative
>work, including a lot of stained glass, but the only piece I know of that
>might have survived is an altar piece, 8ft long, subject, “The Last
>Supper,” commissioned for the Church at Lyme Regis in 1878.
> Another woman in the same line who also took pupils was Miss Turch
>a decorative artist of who was based St George’s Square Regents Park in
>1881, and who also took pupils throughout the 1880s. I'd also be
>interested to know anything about her.
> In fact, I'd be very grateful if any-one can recommend a good
>reference book on decorative artists. Having been watching a whole run of
>repeats of the Antiques Road Show, I have realised that the names of many
>decorative artists who worked for the major china works, jewellers, etc.
>are known, but I haven't found out where the experts get their information.
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