Frances Bannerman
{{Short description|Canadian painter and poet (1855-1944)}}
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| birth_name = Frances Jones
| birth_date = {{birth date text|1855}}
| birth_place = Halifax, Nova Scotia
| death_date = 6 Oct 1944
| death_place = Torquay, England
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| spouse = Hamlet Bannerman (m. 1886)
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| known_for = painter, poet
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Frances Bannerman ({{nee}} Jones) (1855–1944) was a Canadian painter and poet. She painted in oil and watercolour and made black and white illustrations.
Biography
She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1855. She was the youngest daughter of Lt. Governor Alfred G. Jones and Margaret Wiseman Stairs.{{Cite web|url=http://digital.lib.sfu.ca/ceww-539/bannerman-frances-jones|title=Canada's Early Women Writers. SFU Library Digital Collections - Bannerman, Frances Jones|last=|first=|date=2014|website=www.sfu.ca|access-date=April 23, 2020|publisher=Simon Fraser University}} She grew up in what is now the Waegwoltic Club. Bannerman received her early art education from her mother and from Forshaw Day, one of the founding members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, in Halifax.
In Paris, she studied at the ateliers of Edouard Krug and François-Nicolas-Augustin Feyen-Perrin, where she developed her skill as a figure painter. While living in Paris, Bannerman was one of the first North American artists to be influenced by Impressionism{{cite web|url=http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=7|title=Canadian Women Artists History Initiative : Artist Database : Artists : Bannerman, Frances Jones|website=cwahi.concordia.ca|language=en|access-date=January 2, 2019}} and began to use a brighter colour palette and depict light while working en plein air, although she preferred a more academic approach in her brushwork. Her early adoption to Impressionist painting principles had a large effect across Halifax in the early 1900s.{{Cite book |last=Cronin |first=Ray |url=https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/halifax-art-and-artists/ |title=Halifax Art & Artists: An Illustrated History |publisher=Art Canada Institute |year=2023 |isbn=978-1-4871-0315-6 |location=Toronto}}
She began exhibiting her work in London, England in 1882 and was a regular contributor to shows, including those of the Royal Academy of Arts and Royal Society of British Artists, until 1892.{{cite book |last1=Prakash |first1=A. K. |title=Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women Artists|page= 255 |date=2008 |publisher=Firefly |location=Toronto|url=http://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/aprakash/aprakash/1%2C2%2C7%2CB/frameset&FF=aprakash+a+k&5%2C%2C6 |access-date=14 February 2022}} In 1882, she was the first woman to be elected an Associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, and only the second woman to be a member of that academy (the first being Academician Charlotte Schreiber). That year, she exhibited three works at the Royal Canadian Academy, one of which was purchased by the Marquis of Lorne, the governor general of Canada.
In 1883, she exhibited at the Paris Salon. One of the works she submitted, Le Jardin d'hiver (The Conservatory), depicts a view of her cousin reading in the Joneses' family home in Halifax. It is said to be the "first Canadian subject ever to be shown in that venue".{{cite web|url=http://cwahi.concordia.ca/gallery/bannerman.php|title=Canadian Women Artists History Initiative : Gallery : Frances Jones Bannerman, The conservatory|website=cwahi.concordia.ca|language=en|access-date=January 2, 2019}}
In 1886, at age 31, she married Hamlet Bannerman, a London painter, in Halifax and that year they moved to Great Marlowe, England.[http://www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca/en/home/collections/permanentcollection/artists/JonesBannerman/default.aspx Art Gallery of Nova Scotia] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080625105952/http://www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca/en/home/collections/permanentcollection/artists/JonesBannerman/default.aspx |date=June 25, 2008 }} Due to her health, she was forced to give up painting and in 1899 published a volume of her verse, entitled Milestones. Her best-known poem is "An Upper Chamber", which is included in the Oxford Book of English Verse. She moved to Italy in 1901, and stayed there until the Second World War forced her to leave. She returned to Torquay, England, where she died in 1944.{{cite news |title=Death of Frances Bannerman |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/164284569 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=9 October 1944 |pages=6}}
Works
- [http://cwahi.concordia.ca/gallery/bannerman.php "Le Jardin d'hiver" ("The Conservatory) (submission to the 1883 Salon)]
- [http://www.bartleby.com/101/878.html "An Upper Chamber"]
- [https://www.flickr.com/photos/artgalleryns/sets/72157626050775043/ Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Collection]
- Her art is exhibited at the art gallery of The Rooms in Newfoundland.
References
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= Bibliography =
- {{cite book |last1=Bruce |first1=Tobi |last2=Cable|first2=Patrick Shaw|title=The French Connection: Canadian Painters at the Paris Salons 1880-1900 |date=2011 |publisher=Art Gallery of Hamilton |location=Hamilton, Ontario|url=https://librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Bruce,%20Tobi;%20Cable,%20Patrick%20Shaw%20(2011).%20The%20French%20Connection.&tab=LibraryCatalog&search_scope=UTL&vid=01UTORONTO_INST:UTORONTO&offset=0 |access-date=2021-04-15}}
- Cronin, Ray (2023). [https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/halifax-art-and-artists/ Halifax Art & Artists: An Illustrated History.] Toronto: Art Canada Institute.
- {{cite book
|author-last1=O`Neill
|author-first1=Mora Dianne
|author-last2=Stone
|author-first2=Caroline
|title= Two artists time forgot: Frances Jones (Bannerman) & Margaret Campbell Macpherson = Deux artistes oubliées par l'histoire: Frances Jones (Bannerman) & Margaret Campbell Macpherson
|location=Halifax
|publisher=Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
|date=c. 2006
|isbn=1554570689
|url=https://search.library.utoronto.ca/details?9216999&uuid=3d96a402-1883-4514-8220-9fafbb619f67
}}
- {{cite book
|last=Prakash
|first=A.K.
|title=Impressionism in Canada: A Journey of Rediscovery |location=Stuttgart
|publisher=Arnoldsche Art Publishers
|date=2015
|pages=648–649
|isbn=978-3-89790-427-9
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J-ZvrgEACAAJ
}}
External links
- [http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=7 Canadian Woman Artists: Artists Database]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080625105952/http://www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca/en/home/collections/permanentcollection/artists/JonesBannerman/default.aspx Art Gallery of Nova Scotia]
- [http://digital.lib.sfu.ca/ceww-539/bannerman-frances-jones Bannerman] in SFU Digitized Collections, Simon Fraser University, Coll. Canada's Early Women Writers (with photograph)
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Category:Artists from Nova Scotia
Category:20th-century Canadian poets
Category:20th-century Canadian women writers