Sophie Pemberton

Sophie Theresa Pemberton ( born February 13, 1869 in Victoria, British Columbia, † October 31, 1959 in Victoria, British Columbia) was a Canadian painter.

Life

Sophie Pemberton was the second daughter of four children of a politician and expert of the Hudson 's Bay Company Joseph Despard Pemberton (1821-1893) and his wife Theresa Jane Despard Grautoff ( 1843-1916 ). She was together with her siblings, Frederick Bernard (1865-1947), Ada Georgina (1867-1958) and Harriet Susan (1871-1949), exclusively at home by governesses and tutors taught with the help of his grandfather's library.

Your first drawing lessons she received from a local painter who strongly advised her to continue studying in Paris. Accompanied by mother Pemberton went to France to educate yourself at Tony Robert -Fleury at the prestigious Académie Julian in Paris. In 1897, she received international recognition when she at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, including the award-winning work The Little Boy Blue, exhibited their works.

Sophie Pemberton was married twice; first with the Anglican priest Arthur Beanlands († 1917) and shortly thereafter with the businessman Horace Deane - Drummond. Both marriages were childless.