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Elsie Vera Cole
Born27 July 1885
Died2 January 1967(1967-01-02) (aged 81)
Diss, Norfolk, England
NationalityBritish
Education
Known forPainting

Elsie Vera Cole (27 July 1885 – 2 January 1967) was an English painter, engraver and art teacher.[1]

Biography

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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]

References

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  1. ^ Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 3 Bulow-Cossin. Editions Grund, Paris. 2006. ISBN 2 7000 3073 7.
  2. ^ a b c "COLE, Elsie Vera". Suffolk Painters. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
  3. ^ a b c David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0 953260 95 X.
  4. ^ a b Grant M. Waters (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950. Eastbourne Fine Art.
  5. ^ Frances Spalding (1990). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1 85149 106 6.
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