Elaine – (Sophie Gengembre Anderson) Previous Next


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Date: 1870

Size: 155 x 1584 cm

Museum: Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool, United Kingdom)

Technique: Oil On Canvas

This painting is based on a poem by Lord Tennyson. It tells the tale of Elaine, an innocent country girl who falls in love with Sir Lancelot. He abandons her in favour of Queen Guinevere and she dies from unrequited love. Anderson’s picture depicts a servant rowing Elaine’s body to King Arthur’s palace at Camelot. Anderson was born in Paris and studied there under the Russian artist Baron Charles de Steuben. Her art education was cut short when her family moved to America in 1848. From then on she was self-taught. In 1871 Liverpool held its first Autumn Exhibition.

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