Sara Page
| Sara Page | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1855 Moxley, Staffordshire, England |
| Died | 1943 Parkstone, Dorset, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Académie Julian |
Sara Wells Page (1855–1943) was a British female artist, portrait and figurative painter, of Victorian and Edwardian period. During her lifetime she widely exhibited at Parisian salons and British galleries, including at the Royal Academy of Arts. Three of her paintings are in Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
Sara Page was born in 1855 in Moxley, Staffordshire, the fourth of nine children to a successful timber merchant, Samuel Page and Sara Wells Page, whose father Thomas Wells (1804–1876) was a wealthy local Ironmaster. Sam Wells Page, Sara's brother, was official receiver for Wolverhampton and Walsall and a solicitor in the Midlands. Both parents died in the 1870s, leaving to their children a considerable fortune, which helped them to live independently. Between 1884 and 1891, Page studied drawing at Wolverhampton School of Art, and then studied the works of Renaissance masters in Italy. In 1892, after coming back from Italy, she exhibited at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists a painting Golden Venetian.
Sara Page arrived to Paris in about 1892 and studied with William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Tony Robert-Fleury, and Gabriel Ferrier of the Académie Julian. She exhibited at the 1893 Société des Artistes Français (SAF) exhibition.
Page exhibited at the Société des Artistes Français, Paris Salon and the Royal Academy of Arts in London, which from 1892 through 1896 included portraits of members of her extended family. In the following years she continued to paint female portraits, such as: Beatrice (1899), Theodora (1903), Blondina (1914), Isobel (1915, 1916), Henriette (1935). Among other works, A Capri Maiden exhibited in Birmingham in 1894, and The Breton Peasant was shown in 1893–1894 at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. She received a medal for portrait painting.
In 1897 she settled in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a wealthy residential suburb of Paris with a strong artistic atmosphere, and maintained her own studio there. She took additional lessons from the well-established artists and leading exponents of the academic style Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret and Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois who also lived in Neuilly-sur-Seine, and had their studio at 73, Boulevard Bineau.
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