Fairy Tale Wedding (Signed) (Original)

Fairy Tale Wedding art by Barbara Freeman

Fairy Tale Wedding (Signed) (Original)


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Artist: Barbara Freeman
Medium: Watercolour on Board
Size: 10" x 12" (250mm x 300mm)
Date: c. 1950
Signature: Signed by artist bottom right
Code: FreemanWedding

This is the Signed unique original Watercolour painting by Barbara Freeman.

Art from an unknown fairy tale by either the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Andersen - Freeman specialised in both.

Originally painted in the 1950s this story was later reprinted in Fun in Toyland and TV Wonderland in the 1970s. Note the panels have been cut and repositioned for reprinting.
  • Artist Biography
    Barbara Constance Freeman (29 November 1906 - May 1999; UK)
    Barbara C Freemam illustrated many books by other writers, including The Treasure Hunters by Enid Blyton, and many collections of fairy tales, both traditional tales by Bros Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen and modern stories. Some of her earliest illustrations are found in The Cuckoo Book (1942), a book of fairy tales by Edith Mary Bell.

    "Barbara C. Freeman is a gentle writer, with a particular appeal to girls. She makes no great demands of her readers, but does provide good entertainment. Anyone wanting easy, fluent, romantic stories would do well to consider her work." So wrote Felicity Trottman in Twentieth-Century Children's Writers.

    Freeman was both a writer and artist, starting out primarily as an illustrator.

    "I write, I suppose, chiefly because I enjoy writing," she later said. "I like living in two worlds: the one I was born into and the other (which becomes entirely real) which I write about. I'm deeply interested in the way ordinary people lived in the past and the way in which the past thrusts into the present. I believe that most writers find that their characters develop lives of their own and sometimes take charge of both conversations and plots. This, for me, is pure delight, and I allow my people all the freedom that is possible.

    "At art school I was trained to observe details of every kind, and it is a habit that one never grows out of. Details, especially those of the past, fascinate me."

    Barbara Constance Freeman was born in Ealing, Middlesex, on 29 November 1906, the daughter of writer and second-hand bookseller William Freeman and his wife Lucy Constance Freeman (nee Rimmington), who were married in 1905. She studied at the Tiffin Girls' School, Kingston-upon-Thames and at Kingston School of Art.

    Freeman began working as a painter with Green & Abbott, a West End wallpaper studio (1926-27). From there she turned freelance, often working on annuals. She specialised as an artist of fairy tales, although in a realistic style with fantastic elements. She was often called upon to illustrate classic stories the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. She also produced illustrations for The Children's Encyclopedia.

    As television grew and the number of annuals and entertainments for children disappeared in the 1950s, Freeman turned to writing her own stories, beginning in 1956. He first books, Timi and Two-Thumb Thomas, were published in 1961.

    Her work was exhibited at the Heritage Centre, Kingston-upon-Thames Museum, in 1989.

    Since her early childhood, she lived in a mid-Victorian house with a large garden, from which she drew much of her inspiration. She died in May 1999.
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