Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Annie R. Merrylees Arnold (née, Annie R. Merrylees; born c.1867 in Birkenhead; fl. 1890s-1930s) was a Scotch miniature painter. She studied in Edinburgh, first in the School of Art, under Mr. Hodder, and later in the life class of Robert Macgregor; afterward in Paris under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant. Arnold thought it important for miniature painters to do work in a more realistic medium occasionally, and something of a bolder character than can be done in their specialty. She never studied miniature painting, but took it up at the request of a patroness who complained that she could find no one who painted miniatures. This lady gave the artist a number of the Girl's Own Paper, containing directions for miniature painting, after which Arnold began to work in this specialty. She painted a miniature of Lady Evelyn Cavendish, owned by the Marquis of Lansdowne; others of the Earl and Countess of Mar and Kellie, the first of which belongs to the Royal Scottish Academy; one of Lady Helen Vincent, one of Edith Phillips, the daughter of Lionel Phillips, and several for prominent families in Baltimore and Washington, D.C.. Her work is seen in the exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts, London. In 1903, she exhibited miniatures of Miss M. L. Fenton, the late Mrs. Cameron Corbett, and the Hon. Thomas Erskine, younger son of the Earl of Mar and Kellie. She married Reginald E. Arnold (d. 1938), a sculptor. For a time, her address was 7 Gloucester Mansions, Harrington Gardens, London, S.W."@en }
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- Annie_R._Merrylees_Arnold abstract "Annie R. Merrylees Arnold (née, Annie R. Merrylees; born c.1867 in Birkenhead; fl. 1890s-1930s) was a Scotch miniature painter. She studied in Edinburgh, first in the School of Art, under Mr. Hodder, and later in the life class of Robert Macgregor; afterward in Paris under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant. Arnold thought it important for miniature painters to do work in a more realistic medium occasionally, and something of a bolder character than can be done in their specialty. She never studied miniature painting, but took it up at the request of a patroness who complained that she could find no one who painted miniatures. This lady gave the artist a number of the Girl's Own Paper, containing directions for miniature painting, after which Arnold began to work in this specialty. She painted a miniature of Lady Evelyn Cavendish, owned by the Marquis of Lansdowne; others of the Earl and Countess of Mar and Kellie, the first of which belongs to the Royal Scottish Academy; one of Lady Helen Vincent, one of Edith Phillips, the daughter of Lionel Phillips, and several for prominent families in Baltimore and Washington, D.C.. Her work is seen in the exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts, London. In 1903, she exhibited miniatures of Miss M. L. Fenton, the late Mrs. Cameron Corbett, and the Hon. Thomas Erskine, younger son of the Earl of Mar and Kellie. She married Reginald E. Arnold (d. 1938), a sculptor. For a time, her address was 7 Gloucester Mansions, Harrington Gardens, London, S.W.".