Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale was a British artist and illustrator of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in 1872, she was a generation younger than the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. An artist whose output covered a wide range of subjects, she gained recognition for her depictions of medieval and Arthurian themes.

In 1896, Fortescue-Brickdale entered the Royal Academy Schools where she came under the influence of John Byam Liston Shaw, who had been encouraged in his adolescence by John Everett Millais. In 1911, Byam Shaw founded an art school and recruited Fortescue-Brickdale as a teacher.