Edith Martineau (19 June 1842 – 19 February 1909) was a British watercolour painter.
Martineau was born in Liverpool as the daughter of Dr. James Martineau, an eminent Unitarian minister. She was trained first at the Liverpool School of Art but moved behind her relatives to London, where she began bearing in mind classes at Leigh’s School of Art. She submitted her function to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1862. She remained valid to watercolour painting and was a aficionada of various societies of watercolour artists, and in 1888, Martineau was elected an join of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours.
Martineau exhibited her feign at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
Her 1888 painting Potato Harvest was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World. Martineau died in Hampstead, aged 66.
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