Frances Brundage

Isabelle Frances Brundage born Lockwood ( born June 28, 1854 in Newark (New Jersey), † March 28, 1937 ) was an American painter and children's book author.

Frances Isabelle Lockwood was a daughter of the painter Rembrandt Lockwood and his wife Sarah Ursula, born Despeaux. She received her dance training with her father, whom she lost, however early: He left the family when Frances was 17 years old. She worked primarily as an illustrator; her first book, which she earned money, probably was the illustration of a poem by Louisa May Alcott. Preferably, however, she illustrated children's books, which she also wrote for the part itself. Indeed, for instance Adventures of Jack, a children's book that she wrote and illustrated herself.

1886 married Frances Lockwood the artist William Tyson Brundage. After her only daughter in 1891 had died as an infant, children were representations of the main motives of their often published on greeting cards and calendar pictures paintings. Isabelle Frances Brundage worked for renowned publishers, including Stecher Lithographic, De Wolfe, Fiske & Company, Fred A. Stokes, Charles E. Graham & Company, EP Dutton, Hayes Samuel Gabriel, Saalfied and Raphael Tuck & Sons.