Mary Alexandra Bell Eastlake
Mary Alexandra Bell Eastlake was a Canadian painter most notable for her portraits of children, as well as a jewelry designer and producer.Biography
Eastlake received her education at the Art Association of Montreal School from 1884 to 1887, the Art Students League of New York , and between 1891 and 1892 at the Académie Colarossi. She first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1899 and exhibited at and was elected an associate of RCA in 1893.
After marrying Charles Herbert Eastlake, an English painter, and director of the Chelsea Polytechnic, she moved to England and devoted time to learn enamelling and metal work for the production of jewellery as an applied art.
Eastlake exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. One of her pastels, an effect of sunlight through trees, was exhibited at the Salon of 1906. She painted in Sweden, Holland, and Belgium, as well as England and France.
Eastlake returned to Canada in 1939.
The Pastel and the Boston Water Colour Societies made her a member, and besides the Salon, she exhibited at the Royal Academy, Arts and Crafts, and New English Art Club, and at exhibitions in Canada and the United States. Her works are part of the collections in the National Gallery of Canada.Selected works
