Frances anne hopkins biography

  • Frances Anne Hopkins (February 2, – March 5, ) was a.
  • Frances Anne Hopkins was a British painter.
  • Frances Anne Hopkins, artist (born 2 February in the United Kingdom; died 5 March in London, United Kingdom).

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    HOPKINS, Frances Anne

    Born
    London, England,
    Died
    Hamstead, England,
    Biography synopsis
    Frances Anne Hopkins (nee Beechey) was probably taught painting at home, because she was an accomplished artist by the time of her marriage in , at the age of twenty, to Edward Martin Hopkins (), a widower with three children, who was the Secretary to the Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, Sir George Simpson. Hopkins moved to Canada with her husband in the same year as her marriage, settling in Lachine, Quebec, where she had two sons by In that year, the couple and their children moved to a house on Cote des Neiges, near Montreal, where they had one more child by , and the family returned to England in Hopkins continued to paint Canadian subjects for the rest of her life. Her artistic output can be found in such institutions as the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, the Royal Ontario Museum, th

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    Frances Anne Hopkins: Hudson's Bay Company Wife, Voyageurs' Artist

    Frances Anne Hopkins' paintings record fur-trade canoe travel and inspire modern wilderness adventurers. The art has broad appeal and enduring popularity, but the basic question underlying this biography is, how can it be that the finest artist of canoe travel is a mid-nineteenth-century woman? The many challenges she faced included gaining access to the Hudson's Bay Company territory known as Rupert's Land, blending the roles of wife, mother, and artist in an era without dependable birth control, finding exhibition opportunities and patrons, and establishing a career as a professional London artist. During her Canadian years, Canadian art diverged from British art, just as Rupert's Land was sold to the newly established Dominion of Canada.

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    BEECHEY, FRANCES ANNE (Hopkins), painter; b. 2 Feb.  in England, daughter of Frederick William Beechey*, a hydrographer and captain in the Royal Navy, and Charlotte Stapleton; m. 31 Aug.  Edward Martin Hopkins in London, England, and they had fem children; d. 5 March  in Hampstead, London.

    Frances Anne Beechey’s upper middle class family probably provided her with some education in fine art, possibly including instruction in drawing and painting, although no documentation has been found to confirm this conjecture. The Beechey family included several professional artists, the best known being her grandfather Sir William Beechey, a fashionable portrait painter and member of the Royal Academy of Arts. Lady Beechey was a miniaturist and Frances Anne’s father, who was later promoted rear-admiral, was an accomplished water-colourist, apparently trained in the topographical landscape tradition of British officers. When she married,