Edith Lovell Andrews
{{short description|British artist (1886–1980)}}
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| birth_date = 7 November 1886
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Edith Lovell Andrews (7 November 1886 – 1980) was a British painter and decorative artist.
Biography
Andrews was born in Newport in Monmouthshire and was educated at the Forest Gate Collegiate School.{{cite book|author=Sara Gray|publisher=Dark River|year=2019|title= British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in British Decorative Arts |isbn=978-1-911121-63-3}} She studied at the Worcester School of Art from 1903 to 1907 and then at the Glasgow School of Art for two years before attending Heatherley's School of Art in London until 1914.{{cite book|author=Grant M. Waters|publisher=Eastbourne Fine Art|year=1975|title=Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900–1950}} She painted landscapes and flower subjects in watercolours and tempera.{{cite book|author=David Buckman|publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd|year=2006|title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L |isbn=0-953260-95-X}} Andrews also produced posters in tempera, decorative lettering and works on vellum.
Andrews exhibited extensively in international shows, in Canada and in Stockholm and Turin, and also in Britain, notably at St Ives where she lived.{{cite web |url=https://gsaarchives.net/collections/index.php/andrews-edith-lovell|title=Andrews, Edith Lovell |access-date=14 January 2020|work=Glasgow School of Art Archives and Collections}} She was elected a member of the St Ives Society of Artists and had a solo exhibition in 1957. The British Museum holds examples of her work.
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Category:20th-century Welsh painters
Category:20th-century Welsh women artists
Category:Alumni of the Heatherley School of Fine Art
Category:Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art