Monday 18 June 2018

117) Catherine Elizabeth Macready Perugini (née Dickens).

Catherine Elizabeth Macready Perugini (née Dickens; 1839 – 1929). Daughter of charles Dickens and wife of the artist Charles Edward Perugini. She became a successful painter of portraits and genre paintings, sometimes collaborating with Perugini. She started exhibiting her works at the Royal Academy shows in 1877. As a girl, she bore the nickname "Lucifer Box" for her hot temper.
Her first husband was the painter and writer Charles Allston Collins.




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