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23-021(a-g)-HB

Object Name

Picture, Painting

Description

Picture, Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Set of Seven, F.M. Hollams

"Calda" A
"Hydravion III" B
"Baladeur" C
"Vif Argent II" D
"Dame" E
"Souriant III" F
"Fellah" G

. M. (Florence or Frances Mabel) Hollams (English, 1877-1963)

Florence or Frances Mabel Hollams (1877-1963)[1], who signed her works F.M. Hollams, was a popular British painter of horses and dogs, active in the first three decades of the 20th Century. She is noted for her technique of painting on wood panel with no background, so that the grain of the wood is visible.[1]

Mabel studied under the artist Frank Calderdon and, at a time when most schools did not accept female students, she studied in Paris at Académie Julian.[1]
Hollams was a prolific painter of animals, mainly horses. her works occasionally come up for auction and fetch reasonable prices. She painted for Royalty and many aristocratic families. One of her paintings, a royal horse, hangs in the Mounted Branch Museum at Imber Court. She was also one of the first female Royal Academicians, exhibiting eight paintings, and in 1899 was elected to the Society of Women Artists[1]
Charles Lionel Fox, land agent who worked for racehorse owners the Cazelet family, was her husband.[1]
She signed her works "F.M. Hollams".[2]
1. British Artist Biographies: F M (Florence Mabel) Hollams, British Fine Arts website. Retrieved 2013-12-30.
2.Paul Pfisterer (1 January 1999). Signaturenlexikon / Dictionary of Signatures. Walter de Gruyter. p. 308. ISBN 978-3-11-082446-9.
3.A Chestnut Thorough Called 'Enterprise'. Your Paintings. BBC. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
4.A Roan Horse. Your Paintings. BBC. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
5.'Columcille,' a Horse in a Stable. Your Paintings. BBC. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
6.General Fanshawe's Hunter, 'Ich Dien'. Your Paintings. BBC. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
7.General Fanshawe's Hunter 'Mayfly'. Your Paintings. BBC. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
8.'Halse', a Chestnut Hunter. Your Paintings. BBC. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
9."Sport and Animal Life at the Royal Academy". Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes. 1906. p. 451.
10.Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Henry Blackburn (1898). Academy Notes. Chatto and Windus. p. 8.

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Date

1930

Artist

F. M. Hollams

Collection

Bellefield House

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