1. Henrietta Emma Ratcliffe Rae was a British painter of the late Victorian era, who specialised in classical, allegorical and literary subjects.
11 Facts About Henrietta Rae
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Henrietta Rae's best-known painting is The Lady with the Lamp ; depicting Florence Nightingale at Scutari.
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Henrietta Rae was born on 30 December 1856 in Hammersmith, London, to Thomas Burbey Rae, a civil servant, and Ann Eliza Rae, a musician who had been a student of Felix Mendelssohn.
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Henrietta Rae reportedly applied to the Royal Academy of Arts at least five times before eventually gaining a seven-year scholarship.
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In retaliation, Henrietta Rae "accidentally" burnt his hat on her stove.
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Henrietta Rae 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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In 1897 Henrietta Rae organised an exhibition of the work of female artists for the Jubilee of Queen Victoria.
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Henrietta Rae died on 26 January 1928 at Upper Norwood.
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Henrietta Rae's painting Elaine Guarding the Shield of Lancelot drew inspiration from the Tennyson poem Lancelot and Elaine.
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Henrietta Rae's 1891 painting Miss Nightingale at Scutari, of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, has been frequently reproduced, and is generally referred to as The Lady with the Lamp.
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Henrietta Rae painted many socially prominent people; including Lord Dufferin in 1901.