Frances Darlington
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Frances Darlington c1900 -
Sir Perceval and the Holy Grail.
Born Fanny Taplin Darlington (February 3rd 1880 - 5th September 1940 Frances Darlington was a reasonably successful female sculptor working predominantly in North and West Yorkshire. She trained under Sir George Frampton at the Slade School of Art where her contemporaries included Augustus John, Gwen John, William Orpen and Albert Rutherston as well as forgotten female artists such as Edna Clarke Hall. [1] From 1899-1901 she trained under Édouard Lantéri at the Royal College of Art, which was then known as The South Kensington schools.
Her first major public commission was a marble bust of Queen Victoria in 1901 for Morley Town Hall, near Leeds. Her most notable public works are the statue of Joseph Priestley in Birstall Market Square, the seventy foot frieze in Harrogate Theatre and the Biblical panels in Temple Moore's St. Wilfrid's Church, Harrogate.
In 1921, Frances moved to St. Francis Cottage Knaresborough and in 1926 she returned to London[2]. Between 1934 and 1939 she lived at 4 Wentworth Studios where her neighbours included Sydney Greenwood, father of the filmstar Joan Greenwood. From here Frances moved to Oxted, Surrey where she died of heart failure during the bombing of Oxted on 5th September 1940.[3].