Lot 332: * Eastlake (Mary Alexandra Bell, 1864-1951).

* Eastlake (Mary Alexandra Bell, 1864-1951). Mediterranean Hilltop Town, coloured chalks on pale brown paper, initialled lower right, 24 x 25.5cm (9.5 x 10ins), framed and glazed, with old label for William C. Price, framer, Croydon, to verso. Mary Alexandra Eastlake was born in Douglas, Ontario in 1864, and studied in Montreal with Robert Harris, at the Art Students League in New York with William Chase, and at the Académie Colarossi in Paris. She travelled to England and settled in St. Ives where she met and married the English painter H. Eastlake. She was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy, as well as the Pastel Society of London, the Women's International Art Club and the Boston Water-colour Society. She exhibited extensively in Montreal, Ontario, Toronto and in the United States, as well as the Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Painters in Oils, and the London Pastel Society. (1)
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