Frances anne hopkins biography for kids

English painter (1838–1919)

Frances Anne Hopkins (February 2, 1838 – March 5, 1919) was a British painter.

She was the third of Frederick William Beechey's five children.^[1] In 1858, she married a Hudson's Bay Company official, Edward Hopkins, whose work took him to North America.

Frances anne hopkins biography for kids

Hopkins travelled along with him. While sailing, she was able to sketch extensively, therefore, capturing a now lost way of living – the last days of the fur trade.^[2]

Hopkins painted actively during the 1860s and 1870s.^[3] Her best-known works are several large paintings made from her sketches.

She portrayed a voyageur's life in the mid-nineteenth century.^[4] Hopkins, however, remained relatively unknown until recently. At the same time, considering that, she was an artist placed in a context where gender-imposed restrictions were prevalent.

In fact, Frances Anne Hopkins was dubbed as a woman who "staked out an identit