VINCENT HENRY LINES (1909-1968) 'Margaret Fisher Prout Painting'

VINCENT HENRY LINES (1909-1968) 'Margaret Fisher Prout Painting' etching, 19cm x 24cm; together with another work by the same Artst, 'Fishing, Canal St-Martin Paris c1930' etching, 17.5cm x 29.5cm and a copy of the auction catalogue for the remaining studio of Margaret Fisher Prout, Tuesday 11th November, Phillips, Son & Neale (3) Millicent Margaret Fisher Prout ARA (1875- 9 December) was a highly successful and productive artist who helped improve perceptions of modern art in Britain. Prout was born in Church Street, Chelsea, on 31 March 1875, the only daughter of the painter Mark Fisher R.A. She studied under her father and at the Slade School of Art between 1894 and 1897. By 1914 she was teaching life drawing at the Hammersmith School of Arts and Crafts and had her first solo exhibition at the Beaux Arts Gallery in 1922. Prout was a painter of flowers, landscape and figures in an Impressionist style. She produced various subjects including animals, landscapes, figures, flowers, and other still life. In 1908 she married a farmer, John Prout, and was based in various locations throughout her career including Harlow, Essex, London, Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire, East Grinstead and was most latterly associated with Sussex and remained there until her death in 1963. Prout had an extensive career over a period of at least 58 years. She exhibited at the New English Art Club from 1897 (which was an alternative institution for showcasing artists as opposed to the Royal Academy of Arts, which was mostly unwelcoming to the work of female artists), the Royal Scottish Academy (1935), the Royal Hibernian Academy (1924-39), the Royal Glasgow Institute (1928-58) and the Royal Academy itself in 1921-64. She also exhibited with the Society of Women Artists (1927-63) and the Women's International Art Club, both institutions for the promotion of the work of women. Prout was elected an associate member of the Royal Academy in 1948. She was a member of the Society of Women Artists from 1935 to 1937 and from 1952 to 1958 and was also a member of the New English Art Club. A retrospective exhibition of Prout's work was held at the Worthing Art Gallery in 1961, the Royal Watercolour Society held a memorial exhibition in 1966 and Blond Fine Art also held a retrospective in 1979. Vincent Lines, a neighbour of Fisher Prout's in St Leonards-on-Sea, wrote a book on Mark Fisher and Margaret Fisher Prout "Mark Fisher and Margaret Fisher Prout, Father and Daughter: A Record of a Hundred Years of Painting" with the image of Fisher Prout painting offered here featured on the front cover.