Sophie Gengembre Anderson Oil Painting Reproductions

Discover Victorian Paintings by Sophie Gengembre Anderson

Sophie Gengembre Anderson is a famous female artist known for her Victorian portrait paintings. Her oil paintings fall mainly in the Genre paintings movement. Her romantic paintings include portraits of children and women.

She is one of the leading female artists of the Victorian era. Both romanticism and realism heavily influenced Victorian art. Sophie Gengembre Anderson's oil paintings combine both genres of art, resulting in dreamy, idolized romantic paintings.

Famous Paintings by Sophie Anderson

• Take the Fair Face of Woman, and Gently Suspending, With Butterflies, Flowers, and Jewels Attending, Thus Your Fairy is Made of Most Beautiful Things. The date of this painting is unknown. It is held in a Private Collection. In this enchanting fairy painting, the young girl has wings and wears a crown of butterflies.
• ·Young Girl Fixing Her Hair is a beautiful portrait painting also forming part of a Private Collection
• The artist painted The Song of the Lark in 1903, the same year she died. This is one of Anderson’s most famous paintings, depicting a young girl in a field, surrounded by larks. The painting perfectly represents Anderson's romantic art style, with the birds representing the beauty of nature and symbolizing freedom.
• Scheherazade, by Sophie Gengembre Anderson, is an oil painting that forms part of the permanent collection at the New Art Gallery in Walsall, Staffordshire. While living in England, her oil paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts.

Who is Sophie Gengembre Anderson?

Sophie Gengembre Anderson is a British artist born in France in 1823. She died in Falmouth, UK, in 1903. Her father was French, and her mother was English.

The family fled France for the United States during the French Revolution, heading for Cincinnati in 1848. While in America, Sophie Anderson exhibited some of her portrait paintings and landscape art. The family returned to the UK in 1854.

The Legacy of Sophie Anderson’s Victorian Art.

Sophie Gengembre Anderson was the first living female artist to sell one of her paintings to a public collection. Sotheby's sold one of her paintings, No Walk Today, for more than $1.25 million in 2008. This painting shows the innocence of childhood and the strong connection between a mother and child, common themes in Victorian art.

Sophie Genegembre Anderson was a respected, famous female artist. She gained recognition during a challenging time when society struggled to accept women artists.

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