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{{short description|British painter (1842–1909)}}{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

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| birth_place = Liverpool, United Kingdom1909196df=y}}| death_place = London, United Kingdom| nationality = British| education = Liverpool School of Art| field = Painting| training =Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood>Pre-Raphaelite| works =| patrons =| awards = | spouse = | partner =}}(File:Edith Martineau - Kvinna med blommor.jpg|thumb|Edith Martineau - Kvinna med blommor)Edith Martineau (19 June 1842 – 19 February 1909)WEB, Edith Martineau, ARWS (1842-1909),weblink Chris Beetles Gallery, 23 October 2017, 24 October 2017,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20171024043624weblink">weblink dead, was a British watercolour painter.

Biography

File:Family grave of James Martineau in Highgate Cemetery.jpg|thumb|left|Family grave of Edith Martineau in Highgate CemeteryHighgate CemeteryMartineau was born in Liverpool as the daughter of Dr. James Martineau, an eminent Unitarian minister. She was trained first at the Liverpool School of Art but moved with her family to London, where she began following classes at Leigh's School of Art.ODNB, Huneault, Kristina, 2004, Martineau, Edith (1842–1909), 55955, She submitted her work to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1862. She remained true to watercolour painting and was a member of various societies of watercolour artists, and in 1888, Martineau was elected an associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours.Martineau exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.WEB, Nichols, K. L., Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893,weblink 29 July 2018, Her 1888 painting Potato Harvest was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905Edith died in Hampstead, aged 66, and was buried in the Martineau family grave on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.

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External links

• {{Commons category-inline|Edith Martineau}}
• Edith Martineau on artnet

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