A woman of design, a man of passion The pioneering McIans

Reference Number: PP/2554
Level of Description: Item
Title: A woman of design, a man of passion The pioneering McIans
Creator(s) & Administrative History: Morse, Belinda: Author
The Book Guild Ltd: Publisher

Lewes

25 High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 2LU
Date: 2001
ISBN: 1 85776 583 4
Extent: Pages: 306
Description: A biography of nineteenth-century artist and teacher Fanny (Frances Matilda) McIan nee Whitaker, daughter of prominent Bath cabinet makers and upholsterers Sarah and William Whitaker, and her husband Scottish actor and stage painter Robert Ronald McIan who later became well-known as an artist of Highlanders and Highland scenes. It details Fanny's early life in Bath and later life as a female artist and early teacher of art to women at the Female School of Design at Somerset House, London. Chapter 2 also gives an insight into the experiences of audiences and actors at the Theatre Royal, Bath in the early nineteenth century.
Personal Name: McIan, Fanny (Frances) nee Whitaker, c. 1814-1897, artist and teacher of art
McIan, Robert Ronald, 1803-1856, actor, stage painter and artist
Subject: Actors
Art
Art colleges
Artists
Paintings
Teaching
Theatre