Janet Archer
{{short description|British artist}}
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Janet Archer (fl. 1873–1916) was a British artist known for her portrait and genre paintings.
Biography
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Archer studied under Hubert von Herkomer in Bushey after which she was based in London, living in Croydon and Chelsea at different times.{{cite book|author1=Brian Stewart |author2=Mervyn Cutten |publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1997|title=The Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920|isbn=1-85149-173-2}} She painted portraits and genre scenes and, between 1873 and 1893, exhibited several works at the Royal Academy in London.{{cite book|publisher=Editions Grund, Paris|year=2006|title=Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 1 A-Bedeschini|isbn=2-7000-3070-2}} These included works such as Feathered Friends, An Arab's Head and a view of Port Isaac, Cornwall.{{cite book|author=Christopher Wood|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1978|title=The Dictionary of Victorian Painters|isbn=0-902028-72-3|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofvict00wood}} Other works exhibited by Archer included Children of the Great City, There's Father's Boat and the Orange-seller.{{cite book|author=Sara Gray|publisher=The Lutterworth Press|year=2009|title=The Dictionary of British Women Artists|isbn=97807-18830847}} Archer is also known to have exhibited with the Royal Society of British Artists and the New Watercolour Society. Between 1875 and 1913 she also exhibited with the Society of Women Artists.
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External links
- [https://artuk.org/discover/artists/view_as/grid/search/artists:archer-janet-active-18731916 Painting on Art UK]
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Category:19th-century British painters
Category:English women painters
Category:19th-century English women artists