Elizabeth Thompson's sister was the noted essayist and poet Alice Meynell.
10 Facts About Elizabeth Thompson
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Elizabeth Thompson began receiving art instruction in 1862, while growing up in Italy.
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Elizabeth Thompson began exhibiting her artwork, usually watercolours, as a student.
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Elizabeth Thompson became a Roman Catholic along with the rest of her family after they moved to Florence in 1869.
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Elizabeth Thompson's fame increased as the paintings toured Europe, along with photographs of Elizabeth.
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Elizabeth Thompson gained even more notice because people found out that she was both young and pretty, something normally not associated with painters of battle scenes.
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Elizabeth Thompson's works tend to focus on British troops shown in action, or shortly after it, but avoiding scenes of hand-to-hand combat.
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Elizabeth Thompson exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
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Elizabeth Thompson showed pictures at the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1892.
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Elizabeth Thompson died there shortly before her 87th birthday and was interred at nearby Stamullen graveyard.