Merrifield, Mary Philadelphia, née Watkins

Date born:   1804/5

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Date died:   1885

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Early amateur art historian and zoolologist, published important translation of art treatises (1849).

Merrifield's works went through numerous editions and re-edits, including one by A. C. Sewter.

Home Country:   United Kingdom

Sources: Kirk, John Foster, ed. Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature: A Supplement. British and American authors. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1891; Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography: Containing Many Thousand Concise Memoirs of Persons who Have Died Since the Year 1850. Truro: Netherton & Worth, 1892-1921; Roberts, Thomas Rowland. Eminent Welshmen: a Short Biographical Dictionary of Welshmen who Have Attained Distinction from the Earliest Times to the Present. Cardiff: Educational Publishing, 1908; Eisler, Colin.  "Lady Dilke (1840-1904):  The Six Lives of an Art Historian." in  Women as Interpreters of the Visual Arts, 1820-1979.  Sherman, Claire Richter and Holcomb, Adele M., eds.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981, p. 154.

Bibliography:  The Art of Fresco Painting, as Practised by the Old Italian and Spanish Masters, with a Preliminary Inquiry into the Nature of the Colours used in Fresco Painting, with Observation and Notes. London:  C. Gilpin, 1846; Original Treatises, Dating from the XIIth to XVIIIth Centuries on the Arts of Painting. 2 vols. London: J. Murray, 1849.

Subject's name: Mary Philadelphia Merrifield