Phoebe Anna Traquair

Phoebe Anna Traquair, née Ross, (1852–1936) was a leading artist the Arts and Crafts movement in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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1852 - 1936 - Arts and Crafts movement - Edinburgh - Scotland

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From the 1880s to the 1920s Traquair worked in a wide range of media, including easel painting, embroidery, manuscript illumination, book cover tooling, enamelling, as well as mural decoration. She exhibited in Chicago, London, Turin and Saint Louis in the 1890s and 1900s. The decoration of the Catholic Apostolic Church in Mansfield Place in Edinburgh helped to confirm this international recognition.

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1880s - 1920s - Painting - Embroidery - Manuscript illumination - Chicago - London - Turin - Saint Louis - 1890s - 1900s

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The third daughter of a Dublin physician, Traquair attended the art school of the Royal Dublin Society and moved to Edinburgh following marriage to the Scottish palaeontologist Ramsay Heatley Traquair (1840–1912). The eldest of their three children, also Ramsay Traquair, became Professor and Director of the School of Architecture at McGill University, Montreal, in 1913.

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Dublin - Royal Dublin Society - Ramsay Heatley Traquair - 1840 - 1912 - McGill University - Montreal - 1913

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