Little known today, Helen Searle was regarded as one of the best trained still-life painters of the 19th-century. Her still life subjects included fruit, flowers, and game arranged in clear light, suggestive of an outdoor setting, usually in a formal manner.
She was born in Burlington, Vermont but moved with her family to Rochester, New York when she was ten years old.
In 1863, she began to receive attention for still lifes, she exhibited at the Babies' Hospital Relief Bazaar in (showing 500 of 1879 characters). |
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