Lily Blatherwick

Blatherwick was born in Richmond upon Thames and exhibited her works from 1877 at the Royal Academy.[https://books.google.com/books?id=05C02RhJZCkC&pg=PA134 Lily Blatherwick] in the Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators, Volume 1, by Oxford University Press Her father, Charles Blatherwick, was a doctor and keen amateur watercolourist who had been involved in the establishment of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour.{{cite book|author=Paul Harris & Julian Halsby|publisher=Canongate|year=1990|title=The Dictionary of Scottish Painters 1600 to the Present|isbn=1-84195-150-1}}{{cite book|author=Robin Garton|publisher=Garton & Co / Scolar Press|year=1992|title=British Printmakers 1855-1955 A Century of Printmaking from the Etching Revival to St Ives |isbn=0-85967-968-3}}

In 1896, Blatherwick married the artist Archibald Standish Hartrick, who was the son of her father's second wife from her first marriage. The couple lived in Tresham in Gloucestershire for ten years.{{cite book|editor=Gill Saunders |publisher= V&A Publishing|year=2011|title=Recording Britain|isbn=978-1-85177-661-0}} There they redecorated the small village church, whilst both pursuing their artistic careers. They both had works shown at the Continental Gallery in 1901 and her painting Wintry Weather was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39000/39000-h/39000-h.htm Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day], by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905 Blatherwick died in London, but was buried in the church graveyard in Tresham in 1934.

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Blatherwick contributed paintings to several exhibitions, including two floral paintings in an exhibition of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts in May 1900,{{Cite news|url=http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/9dAg6X|title=What Women Are Doing In Scotlant|last=Aitken|first=Mixa|date=1900|work=Womanhood|access-date=2019-03-29|issue=18|volume=III|page=426|via=Nineteenth Century Collections Online}} "The House With the Green Shutters" in the Exhibition of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts in 1903,{{Cite news|url=http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/9dAow7|title=What Women Are Doing in Scotland|last=Aitken|first=Mina|date=1903|work=Womanhood|access-date=2019-03-29|issue=54|volume=IX|page=40|via=Nineteenth Century Collections Online}} and a painting of "daffodils in a blue vase" at Burlington House with the Royal Academy of Arts in 1904.{{Cite news|url=http://tinyurl.galegroup.com/tinyurl/9dAg6X|title=Women's Work at the Royal Academy|last=Ballin|first=Ada|date=1904|work=Womanhood|access-date=2019-03-29|issue=67|volume=XII|page=28|via=Nineteenth Century Collections Online}}

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