In the history of art, Elizabeth Thompson is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Elizabeth Thompson as British artist (1846–1933).
Elizabeth Thompson was born at Lausanne in 1846. Her recorded nationality is United Kingdom.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
She worked as painter, artist and writer.
Her best-known work is The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras. Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in United Kingdom shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Elizabeth Thompson died in 1933, aged 87. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras
