Emily Maria Eardley Childers (1866–1922), known as Milly Childers, was an English painter of the later Victorian time and the before twentieth century.
She was the daughter of Hugh Childers, a prominent Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister of his generation. Little is known nearly Milly Childers’s upfront life; she began exhibiting her art approaching 1890. After her father’s 1892 retirement from public service, father and daughter traveled together through England and France; Milly Childers painted landscapes and church interiors. Her father’s social and political links brought his daughter some commissioned work, including as a restorer and copyist for Lord Halifax at Temple Newsam. Childers exhibited her be active at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
One of Childers’ best-known works is a portrait of her father; another is her own self portrait from 1889. Other of her better-known works are “Children Playing Hoops in the Street, Arromanches” and “The Pannier market, Barnstaple”. Her style shows influences from the Impressionists.
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