1. Catherine Elizabeth Macready Perugini was an English painter of the Victorian era and the daughter of Catherine Dickens and Charles Dickens.
15 Facts About Kate Perugini
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Kate Perugini died on 24 July 1876, at the age of seven months.
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Kate Perugini was the primary source of information used by biographer Gladys Storey for her book Dickens and Daughter, which revealed Dickens's affair with the actress Ellen Ternan.
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However, George Bernard Shaw wrote to The Times Literary Supplement to say that Kate Perugini had told him everything in the book forty years before.
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Charles Kate Perugini died in 1918 and was buried alongside his baby son.
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Kate Perugini survived her husband by ten years, dying at the age of 89.
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At the age of 12, Kate Perugini Dickens began studying art at Bedford College, the first institution of higher learning for women in Britain.
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Kate Perugini became a successful painter of portraits and genre paintings, sometimes collaborating with her husband Charles Perugini.
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Kate Perugini sought to distinguish herself from her father, refusing to be associated only with his fame.
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The portrait of Kate Perugini, who had exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery was a wedding gift by Millais, presented on her marriage to Charles Kate Perugini.
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In showing the picture at the Grosvenor, "Kate Perugini advertised herself as part of a cultured, educated and artistic family" Millais had previously used her as a model for his painting The Black Brunswicker.
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Kate Perugini regularly exhibited her work at the Society of Watercolour Painters and the Society of Lady Artists.
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Kate Perugini sent three works to the Grosvenor Gallery between 1880 and 1882.
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Kate Perugini 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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Kate Perugini is particularly known for her portraits of children, which include: A Little Woman, Feeding Rabbits, Dorothy de Michele, and A Flower Merchant.