Edith Hipkins [SEP] date of death
Edith Hipkins
Edith Hipkins (1854–1945) was a British portrait painter who exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1883 and 1911.
Life.
Hipkins was the daughter of Jane Souter (née Black) and the musicologist Alfred James Hipkins. In the 1890s she painted two paintings that are now in national collections. One is in the collection of the Royal Academy of Music and a portrait of her father is in the National Portrait Gallery in London. She exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1883, 1884,
, who became a noted wood-engraver, and a daughter Edith, who became a highly successful portrait painter.
Hipkins, Carl Engel and Thomas Taphouse created three of the outstanding antiquarian collections of musical instruments in the U.K.
According to his will, the Royal Institution received his collection of tuning forks and the Royal College of Music received his collection of musical instruments.
Selected works.
- reprinted in 1975 with an introduction by Edwin M. Ripin
- reprinted in