FREDA MARSTON R..B.A.,
R.O.I., R.B.C. (1895 – 1949)
"Lake Orta near Varese"
Oil painting on canvas. Signed. 20" x 24"
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Freda Marston was a figure and landscape painter and etcher. She was born at Hampstead on 24th October 1895, nee Clulow. She studied
art at the Regent Street Polytechnic and also in Italy under Terrick Williams from
1916 to 1920. In 1922 she married
Reginald St. Clair Marston. She exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal
Society of British Artists, to which she was elected Associate member in 19824,
rising to full membership in 1926, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, to
which she was elected Member in 1931, the Royal Institute, the Royal Society of
Artists Birmingham, the Brook Street Art Gallery, Connell and Sons Gallery, the
Fine Art Society, the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Manchester City Art
Gallery and the Royal Society of Women Artists.
She also exhibited at the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists, of
which she was a Member. She lived in London in 1919 and 1929, Houghton,
Nr. Arundel in Sussex in 1923, Amberley, Sussex in 1927, Dedham, Essex in 1937 and later at
Robertsbridge. She died on 27th March 1949.
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