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Winifred Marie Louise Austen

Winifred Marie Louise Austen (1876 - 1964) was active/lived in England.  Winifred Austen is known for Wildlife-birds painting and etching.

Born at Ramsgate, Kent on 12 July 1876, Winifred Austen only daughter of Josiah Austin, a Cornish naval surgeon, and his wife Fanny, née Mann.  She amended the spelling of her surname from Austin to Austen from the time that she began to exhibit.



In 1892 the family moved to Hornsey, London from where Austin attended the London County Council School of Arts and Crafts, studying under Cuthbert Swan, an animal painter. I n 1899 Austen exhibited a picture of a lion at the Royal Academy and in all exhibited more than seventy pictures at the Academy, the last in 1961. 



She worked in both oils and watercolours but Austen is most highly regarded as an etcher. In all she made some two hundred etched plates, beginning in 1906 with a series entitled The White Heron. She had particular feeling for birds and small mammals, and the naturalist Sir Peter Scott said 'she was certainly the best bird-etcher of this century'.



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