Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (25 January 1872 – 10 March 1945) was a British artist, a late exponent of Pre-Raphaelitism.

[1] She produced paintings in oils and watercolour, book illustrations, and a number of designs for works in stained glass.

In 1909, Ernest Brown, of the Leicester Galleries, commissioned a series of twenty-eight watercolour illustrations to Tennyson's Idylls of the King, which Fortescue-Brickdale painted over two years.

[5] She lived during much of her career in Holland Park Road, opposite Leighton House, where she held an exhibition in 1904.

[7] Her 1921 World War I memorial to the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry is in York Minster.