Eleanor Best
{{short description|British painter}}
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| birth_date = 1875
| birth_place = Amport, Hampshire, England
| death_date = {{Death year and age|1957|1875}}
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| education = Slade School of Art
| field = Portrait and figure painting
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Eleanor Best (1875–1957) was a British oil painter known for her portrait and figure paintings.
Biography
Best was born in Amport in Hampshire and studied at the Slade School of Art in London during 1909.{{cite book|author=Frances Spalding|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1990|title=20th Century Painters and Sculptors |isbn=1-85149-106-6}} She continued to live in London throughout her life, settling in Richmond.{{cite book|author=Grant M. Waters|publisher=Eastbourne Fine Art|year=1975|title=Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950}}{{cite book|author=RSMA|publisher= Bounty Books|year=1996|title=A Celebration of Marine Art -Sixty Years of the Royal Society of Marine Artists|isbn=978-0-7537-2468-2}}
Best exhibited at the Royal Academy several times, with the New English Art Club and also at the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. She also exhibited in the United States and Sweden.{{cite book|author=David Buckman|publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd|year=1989|title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 |isbn=0953260909}} The Contemporary Art Society hold examples of her work and she was included in the 1986 Slade Ladies exhibition held by the Parkin Gallery. From 1928 to 1930 Best exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in Paris.{{cite book|publisher=Editions Grund, Paris|year=2006|title=Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 2 Bedeschini - Bulow|isbn=2-7000-30729}} For several years she was a member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists.
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Category:20th-century English painters
Category:20th-century English women artists
Category:Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art
Category:Artists from Hampshire
Category:English women painters
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