Clara S. Lane
Clara S. Lane | |
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Clara Lane was the model for the seated nun in The Vale of Rest by Millais | |
| Born | October 9, 1826 |
| Died | 1918 (aged 91–92) |
| Occupation | Painter |
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Clara Sophia Lane (October 9, 1826 – 1918) was an English painter and illustrator.
Clara Sophia Lane was the eldest daughter of Richard James Lane, an engraver and lithographer who was the great-uncle of poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. Clara and her sister Emily Lane both became artists.[1]
Clara Lane regularly exhibited at the Society of Female Artists and the Royal Academy, usually watercolor works depicting fruit and flowers.[2] She painted portraits of Edward William Lane, her uncle, and James Silk Buckingham, both now in the National Portrait Gallery.[3] Her illustration work included illustrations for Aunt Judy's Tales (1859) by Margaret Gatty, an illustration of Hopkins' poem "The Palimpsest," and the wood engraving of a work by W. J. Linton for the title page of Hopkins' Hawaii: The Past, Present, and Future of its Island-Kingdom (1862).[2]
John Everett Millais used Lane as the model for the seated nun in his painting The Vale of Rest.[2]
References
- ^ Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1959). Journals and papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins Humphry House. Internet Archive. London; New York : Oxford University Press.
- ^ a b c Phillips, Catherine (2007). Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Victorian visual world. Oxford: Oxford university press. ISBN 978-0-19-923080-8.
- ^ National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) (1973). Early Victorian portraits. Internet Archive. London : H.M.S.O. ISBN 978-0-11-290093-1.