Alice Havers

Alice Mary Havers (her name before marriage and professionally), married name Alice Mary Morgan (1850–1890), was an English painter and illustrator.

Life

She was third daughter of Thomas Havers of Thelton Hall, Norfolk, the family seat. Her father was manager of the Falkland Islands, and she was brought up with her family there, and later at Montevideo. On her father's death in 1870 she returned to England and entered the school of art at South Kensington, where she gained a free studentship in the first year. ^[1]

In 1888 Havers moved to Paris with her children, drawn by French school of painting. Her career was, however, cut short by her sudden death, at her residence in Marlborough Road, St. John's Wood, London, on 26 August 1890.^[1]

Works

But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart Alice Havers (1888), by Alice Havers

Havers first exhibited at the Society of British Artists in Suffolk Street, and in 1873 for the first time at the Royal Academy. She also exhibited watercolours at the Dudley Gallery, London.^[2] One of her early pictures, Ought and carry one, was purchased by Queen Victoria, and was engraved; and she attained success and popularity. She also worked in art-illustration, in particular for some of the stories written by her sister Dorothy Henrietta Boulger, pseudonym "Theo Gift".^[1] She was commissioned for special programmes for Savoy Operas.^[3]

In 1889 Havers exhibited at the Paris Salon two pictures, one of which (already exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1888), And Mary kept all these sayings in her heart, attracted attention and was honourably commended.^[1]

Family

In April 1872 Havers married Frederick Morgan the artist, but she continued to be known professionally under her maiden name. She left two sons and one daughter.^[1]

Notes

1.  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). "Morgan, Alice Mary". Dictionary of National Biography 39. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
2. ‘The Dudley Gallery’, The Art Journal, May 1878, p. 121.
3. Regina B. Oost (2009). Gilbert and Sullivan: Class and the Savoy Tradition, 1875-1896. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 72. ISBN 978-0-7546-6412-3.

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). "Morgan, Alice Mary". Dictionary of National Biography 39. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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