Elizabeth Gulland
Elizabeth Gulland (1857– 6 November 1934) was a Scottish-born printmaker and painter. Background Elizabeth Gulland was born in 1857 in Edinburgh, Scotland. She attended Edinburgh Ladies’ College and Edinburgh Atelier, before moving to the Herkomer School of Painting in Bushey, Hertfordshire to study under Hubert von Herkomer, a well-known portrait painter. Gulland was a freelance artist whose primary work was as a genre painter and mezzotinter. She continued to live in Bushey and was an active artist from 1887 until her death at age 77 in 1934. Art style Gulland produced oil and water color paintings, book covers for American authors, sketches, and mostly mezzotint engravings. The subjects of her paintings included portraits, figures and flowers. Most of Gulland’s pieces were inspired, and even modeled, by 18th-century Rococo portraits. A portrait that best illustrates her work is titled The Strawberry Girl after Joshua Reynolds. The piece was created in 1921 and was based on an oil painting by Joshua Reynolds. It is a mezzotint print, and thought to portray the struggles of the British working class after World War I, as young girls would often sell strawberries in order to support their family. Significance of art Gulland advocated many societal