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Francis Humphry W Woolrych

Francis Humphry W. Woolrych (1868 - 1941) was active/lived in Missouri / Australia, France.  Francis Woolrych is known for Portrait and landscape easel painting, historical themed murals.

The following is from Alice Avina, great granddaughter of Francis and Bertha Hewitt Woolrych:

Francis Woolrych was born in Sidney Australia to English parents. He studied fine arts in Paris, France. His wife, Bertha Hewitt Woolrych, was born in Alton, Illinois. She also studied fine arts in Paris, France, where they met and were married.

Francis Humphry Woolrych's speciality was nudes, landscapes and portraits. He has a mural in the dome in the capital building named the Wealth of the North in Jefferson City, Missouri and in the St. Louis Library. He was noted in the 1904 Artists Who's Who in America.

Bertha Hewitt was a wonderful artist; she was noted in 1904 artists Who's Who in America, and "Women Artists of 1900's," and several other publications. Her specialty was portraits and still life in oil and pastel--her pastels were awesome! so life like, you could almost see them breathe!

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Francis Humphry W Woolrych


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Moving Scenic Panorama Painting, 3-D Diorama
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Nude Figure, Nudity
  • Panoramic View and/or Large Scale Panoramic Artwork
  • Portraits, Portraiture
  • Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Europe
  • Germany Before 1900
  • Italy
  • Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Association
  • St. Louis Artists' Guild
Art Teacher
  • Gustave Courtois
  • Raphael Collin
Art School
  • Academy Colarossi, Paris, Student
  • Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Student
  • German Academies Before 1900
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
  • Genre Specialty
  • Married to an Artist
  • Mural Specialty
  • Nude Figure Specialty
  • Religious Subject Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition of State Fair
  • Missouri State Fair
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
  • Paris Salons

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