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Ernestine Evans Mills

1871–1959

BiographyErnestine Mills (née Bell) was an English painter, metalworker and enameller. She studied at the Slade School of Art, Finsbury Central Technical School, and the South Kensington School of Art. She apprenticed to the Pre-Raphaelite artist, Frederic Shields, and later wrote his biography. She learned enameling techniques from Alexander Fisher. She won several awards including the gold medal at the International Exhibition, Milan in 1906; a First Award at the New Zealand International Exhibition of 1926; and a silver medal at the Paris Salon of 1955.She was a member of the Society of Women Artists and vice-president of the craft section.
Mills was also very active in the women’s suffrage movement (as were her parents) and some of her work alludes to this issue. She was the author of The Domestic Problem, Past, Present, and Future (1925)

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