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Elsie Vera Cole
English painter, engraver and art teacher From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Elsie Vera Cole (27 July 1885 – 2 January 1967) was an English painter, engraver and art teacher.[1]
Biography
Cole was born in Braintree in Essex to the congregational minister William Cole and his wife Ellen née Holmes.[2] Cole went to school in Gravesend in Kent and studied at the Norwich School of Art from 1908 to 1910.[3] She went on to study at the Chelmsford School of Art, completing her studies in 1919.[3] Cole then returned to the Norwich School of Art to take a teaching position at and continued to teach there until 1941.[4] Living in Norwich she produced A Sketch book of Norwich which was published in 1920.[5] Cole travelled and painted widely in Britain and Europe.[4] She exhibited with the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, the Society of Women Artists, the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol and with the Norwich Art Circle.[3] From 1933 she was also a regular exhibitor with the Ipswich Art Club.[2] Cole died at Diss in Norfolk in 1967.[2]
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