ASKEW, Felicity Katherine Sarah

1894 - ?

Felicity Katherine Sarah Askew was born at Chelsea, London on 19 December 1894, daughter of Scottish born John Bertram Askew (16 October 1869–5 February 1929), a writer and translator, third son of Bertram Askew Robertson of Pallinsburn, Northumberland, and his wife Fredericka Louisa Dallas (1867-1918), eldest daughter of Col. George Frederick Dallas, who married at St Peter's Church, Eaton Square, London on 1 July 1893. Felicity was a pupil of German sculptor Max Kruse (14 April 1854-26 October 1942), artist William Francis Calderon (28 February 1865-21 April 1943) and Italian sculptor Ernesto Bazzaro (29 May 1859-18 May 1937). A painter, sculptor, and black & white artist but she spent seven years in horse racing stables living at Prospect House Studio, Newmarket, Suffolk and where she was living in 1921. She exhibited at the Paris Salon; Permanenta, Milan; Goupil Gallery; Grosse Berliner Kunstausstelling; the Walker Art Gallery and at the Society of Scottish Artists. She was living at Castle Hills, Berwick-on-Tweed 1923-1927 from where she exhibited her works, including in August 1923 sketches of racehorses at Newmarket and in 1924 at Dodd's Gallery in Berwick-on-Tweed and in several galleries in the North of England and in Scotland. After her last exhibitions in November 1926 she seems to have given up painting and her whereabouts have yet to be discovered. There is a Felicity Askew, an actress, who appears in several Scottish productions 1955-56 but is a much younger person.

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