Helen Allingham - Gallery
The Woman Who Painted Charlotte Mason's England
This gallery is intended to accompany my article below. The paintings gathered here are a selection of Helen Allingham’s work.I have carefully adjusted each one in Photoshop – rebalancing the colours, correcting the warmth that age and reproduction inevitably introduce – to try to bring them back to something closer to what Helen herself may have seen when she was painting.
They are presented as an invitation to look more closely, ‘beyond the biscuit tin’ as it were. Allingham painted these scenes because this way of live was rapidly disappearing. Each painting is a small act of preservation. For those who wish to explore her life and work more fully, Ina Taylor’s Helen Allingham’s England: An Idyllic View of Rural Life remains the essential biography, (if you can get it) thoroughly researched, beautifully illustrated, and the first to reveal the full range of an artist too often reduced to her cottage paintings alone.
If you would like the full-size, colour-corrected versions of these paintings — for picture study, for your classroom wall, or simply to look at properly — send me a DM with your email address and I’ll send them over. There are twenty six in all.
