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Kate Elizabeth Bunce (25 August 1856 – 24 December 1927) was an English painter and poet associated with the Arts and Crafts movement.
The daughter of John Thackray Bunce – a patron of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery and editor of the Birmingham Post during its Liberal heyday – Bunce was born in Birmingham and educated at home. She studied at the Birmingham School of Art in the 1880s, first exhibiting artworks with the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in 1874 and with the Royal Academy from 1887.[1]
Her earliest known work is The Sitting Room (1887), and in 1893 Bunce was one of the artists invited to contribute murals to hang in Birmingham Town Hall. Her work became increasingly influences by Burne-Jones, Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites, and was characterised by strong figure drawing and a clear use of colour. Later in her life she painted a series of decorative pices in churches, often alongside metalwork by her sister Myra Bunce.[2]
Bunce lived all of her life in Edgbaston and died unmarried.[2]
References
1. ^ Marsh, Jan (2004). "Bunce, Kate Elizabeth (1856–1927)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online Edition ed.). Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/64730\. Retrieved 2008-12-17.
2. ^ a b Gaze, Delia, ed (1997). "Bunce, Kate (Elizabeth)". Dictionary of Women Artists. Taylor & Francis. pp. 334–335. ISBN 1884964214.
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