Lilian Lancaster (artist)

Lilian Adelaide Lancaster (5 October 1886 – 3 June 1973) was a British teacher and artist and a former pupil of Walter Sickert.

[1] She was born in Chiswick in London in 1886,[2] one of two daughters of Margaret, an Irish comedienne, and William James Lancaster, a theatrical manager.

[3] Her older sister, Theodora Margaret Sothern Lancaster (1885-1977) married the sculptor Edmund Thomas Wyatt Ware (1883-1960).

16) and "Gold and Blue" (No 7), I have the feeling that in all these pictures Miss Lancaster is exhibiting more virtuosity than taste, more good schooling - than discrimination.

13) – a telltale juxtaposition, by-the-bye!– that you realise on the one hand wherein Miss Lancaster is incomplete, subservient and still diffident, and on the other wherein she is mistress, unhesitating and brilliant.

10 is a disorderly jumble, pretentious in its composition, deceptive through its complexity, and almost pre-Raphaelite in its humble prostration before insiignificant and disturbing detail.