Hilda KIDMAN (1891 - 1975)

Portrait of a Lady

Oil on canvas

Painter and illustrator, she was born near Hitchin in Hertfordshire. She was especially noted for her pictures of flowers and children, and won an Honourable Mention at the Paris Salon. Kidman studied at the Slade School of Fine Art under Henry Tonks, Philip Wilson Steer and Walter Westley Russell. She later studied at St John's Wood School of Art, and at Frank Calderon 's School of Animal Painting. She travelled extensively and worked in Paris in the years immediately after World War I. Her pictures occasionally appeared on the covers of women's magazines. Kidman exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Society of Women Artists, and the Royal Scottish Academy.

Literature: Buckman: Artists in Britain Since 1945

22" x 25 ½" / 56 x 65cm

Ref. no. MB MG 581