GRUBBE, Marie Ellen
As Marie Ellen Lucas, she was born at 21 Queen’s Square, Holborn, London on 10 June 1879, daughter of John Seymour Lucas, artist figure painter, and his wife Marie Elizabeth Cornelissen of Paris, daughter of Louis de Cornelissen of Queen Street, West London, who married at St Giles-in-the-Fields, Bloomsbury, London on 18 July 1877, Marie was a brother to Sydney Charles Seymour Lucas who painted his sister's portrait, Mrs Marie Seymour Grubbe. A miniature painter who, as Miss M E S Lucas or as Mrs M E Grubbe, exhibited miniatures at the Royal Academy also showing at the Walker Art Gallery from The Priory, Blythburgh, Suffolk. She married at St Mary's Church, West Hampstead, London on 23 June 1909, Lawrence Carrington Grubbe. In 1939, a widow, living at The Priory, Blythburgh, Suffolk and where she died on 4 November 1951, leaving an only daughter, Margaret Julia Maria Grubbe. An oil painting (28.5 x 38.8cm.) 'Onions, a Tomato, a Pitcher and a terracotta Mug on a Table' sold at Christie’s (lot 410) on 13 May 1999 and realised £264. She is often conflated with her artist mother who painted under Marie Seymour Lucas, Marie E Lucas, Mary Ellen Cornelissen, or Lucas &c. who also exhibited at the Royal Academy from Woodchurch Road, West Hampstead.
Royal Academy Exhibits
from New Place, Woodchurch Road, West Hampstead, London
1903 1244 Henry Prince, Esq. - watercolour
1906 1150 Mrs Richardson - watercolour
1907 1250 Mrs F A Toynbee - watercolour
1908 1357 Mrs Francis T Cotton - watercolour
as Mrs M E Grubbe from 96 Abbey Road, North London
1910 1184 A Portrait - watercolour
1244 Capt L C Grubbe - watercolour
from Southwold, Suffolk
1914 1589 Margaret Julia Marie, daughter of the late Capt Laurence Grubbe - watercolour
1598 Peggy - watercolour
from Woodchurch Road, West Hampstead, London
1916 1141 A Portrait - watercolour
1165 M J M G - watercolour
1918 887 Mowbray, son of Ernest C M Treherne, Esq. - watercolour
954 Mrs Robert Bevan - watercolour
1110 A Portrait - watercolour
1920 946 Lieut R J Brooke-Booth, RN, DSC - watercolour
Works by This Artist
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Small and of No ReputationOil on canvas
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