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‘Feeding the Doves, a scene at Freshwater’. Watercolour. c1885. Image: Private Collection.


Helen continued to visit Farringford where she painted views of the house and grounds for Lady Tennyson and her son, Hallam. At his suggestion, she provided illustrations for the book ‘The Homes of Tennyson’, and later illustrated ‘Happy England’ by Marcus Huish, which was published in 1903; this was followed by ‘The Cottage Homes of England’ in 1909.


Helen painted views mainly in the West Wight but there are a few watercolours of scenes on the beach at Sandown and of the inland villages. In total she exhibited eighty-six watercolours of the Isle of Wight at leading London exhibitions between 1885-1909. Whilst on the Island she made painting excursions with two other important watercolourists, her friend Kate Greenaway and Myles Birket Foster. Helen died in 1926 after achieving recognition for her work across Europe and more widely with her works fetching up to fifty guineas, an enormous sum for the time. Today her watercolours continue to be highly regarded and are eagerly sought after by collectors.


Isle of Wight works by Helen Allingham will


be included in the forthcoming publication by Robin McInnes Isle of Wight Landscape Art – An illustrated Dictionary 1650-1930’.


A photograph of Mrs Helen Allingham at the time of her marriage in 1874. Image: Private Collection.


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