Sophie Anderson

Anderson established her artistic reputation at the time she painted Fallen Fruits, which showed in the high prices paid for her pictures. In 1855 she sold her first exhibited work (An American Market Basket) for £315, then an enormous sum. In the same year she exhibited her paintings at the Royal Academy and at the Royal Society of British Artists. She was one of the relatively few Victorian women painters whose works were acquired by major city museums. One of her large-scale, imposing historical paintings, Elaine (pictured), made in 1870, was bought by Liverpool City Council and can still be seen in the Walker Art Gallery there. After her successful period in England, in the 1870s Anderson moved with her husband for health reasons to the island of Capri in Italy, where she continued painting for the next twenty years or so and regularly sent her pictures to England for exhibition and sale. In the 1890s she returned to England, settled in Falmouth and worked there until her death in 1903.

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