Constance Phillott
British painter, 1842–1931
SchoolPre-Raphaelite
BiographyConstance Phillott was born in Bloomsbury, London. She was the second daughter of Arthur Phillott (1813-1853), a physician and her mother Frances Caroline Frend (1811-1912) was the daughter of reformer William Frend. She was trained at the Royal Academy schools, along with her cousin William Frend De Morgan and his later wife, Mary Evelyn Pickering. Phillott exhibited with a number of societies, including the Royal Academy, the Society of British Artists, multiple galleries, such as the Grosvenor Gallery, and she was elected an associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours. Constance declared her support for female suffrage and joined the London suffrage society in 1889. There is no trace of her exhibiting after the 1880s.Person TypeIndividual
Terms
British Pre-Raphaelite painter, active 1902–1909
British artist, educationalist and women's rights activist, 1827–1891
British Pre-Raphaelite painter, 1828–1882
British author, designer, and ceramicist, 1839–1917
English painter and artists' model, 1844–1927
English model, painter, and poet, 1829–1862
