Eleanor Vere Boyle
Eleanor Vere Boyle was an English artist and author of the Victorian era. She has been considered the most important female illustrator of the 1860s.
She was born in Scotland, the youngest daughter of Alexander Gordon of Ellon Castle, Aberdeenshire. In 1845 she married Richard Cavendish Boyle , a younger son of the 8th Earl of Cork R. C. Boyle served as the rector of Marston Bigot in Somerset and later as Queen Victorias chaplain. Because of her social position, she rarely exhibited or sold her artwork actions that would have been dclass in the standards of her time and place. She did allow a rare exhibition of her art at Leighton House c. 1902. Consistently, in both her visual art and her books, she employed her initials, E. V. B., to mask her identity.
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