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Jeffreys, Edith Gwyn, 1847-1946
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Description area
Dates of existence
1847-1946
History
Edith Mary Gwyn Jeffreys was born in 1847 in Oystermouth, Glamorgan, Wales.
She was a talented sculptor and painter who exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy Summer Show of 1885 and whose painting “Daydreams” was bought by Pitt-Rivers. She was living at Bedford Gardens in London at the time and between 1886 and 1889 she exhibited another 8 pieces at the Royal Academy (mostly terra cotta). In 1889, she received honours for her exhibited work at Paris International Exhibition.
She died on January 6, 1946, in Granville, Normandy, France.