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Ethel Pennewill Brown Leach

Ethel Pennewill Brown Leach (1878 - 1960) was active/lived in Delaware.  Ethel Leach is known for Portrait, sea-landscape, illustrator.

Born in Wilmington, Delaware where she spent much of her life, Ethel Leach was known as the dean of women artists in Delaware during the first half of the twentieth century. She gained much respect on the East Coast for a lengthy career that included illustration, interiors scenes, landscapes, portraits, and floral depictions. For the last thirty years of her life, she and her husband, Will Leach, were the mainstays of the artist colony at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

She grew up in rural settings in a family where her father was a doctor and she was raised by a stepmother. She had early art talent, and in 1894 enrolled in the Clawson S. Hammitt School of Art in Wilmington, where she got classical training, did plein-air painting, and received much encouragement from her peers and teachers.

From October, 1899, she studied at the Art Students League in New York but had to take a year off from 1902 to 1903 because of typhoid fever. During her years in New York, she received li   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3607 characters.]  Artist bio

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