Milly Childers facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Milly Childers
Self portrait (1889)
Born	Emily Maria Eardley Childers 1866 (1866)
Died	1922 (aged 55–56)
Nationality	British
Known for	Painting

Emily Maria Eardley Childers (1866–1922), known as Milly Childers, was an English painter of the later Victorian era and the early twentieth century.

She was the daughter of Hugh Childers, a prominent Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister of his generation. Little is known about Milly Childers's early life; she began exhibiting her art around 1890. After her father's 1892 retirement from public service, father and daughter traveled together through England and France; Milly Childers painted landscapes and church interiors. Her father's social and political connections brought his daughter some commissioned work, including as a restorer and copyist for Lord Halifax at Temple Newsam. Childers exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.

Portrait of Hugh Childers (1891)

One of Childers' best-known works is a portrait of her father; another is her own self portrait from 1889. Other of her better-known works are Children Playing Hoops in the Street, Arromanches and The Pannier market, Barnstaple. Her style shows influences from the Impressionists.

Photograph by John Benjamin Stone

Finished painting: The Terrace, 1909

The artist at work - and its result

See also

In Spanish: Milly Childers para niños