Two Artists - Molescroft, UK - Occupational/Hobby Grave Stones on Waymarking.com

The grave stone is very close to the entrance of St. Mary's cemetery just over the border from Beverley in Molescroft.

At the top of the headstone is a carving of an artists palette, easel and paint brushes.

Mary Dawson Elwell and her husband Frederick William Helwell R.A. were both famous artists based in nearby Beverley.

They have a blue plaque on their residence and a number of copies of their paintings are displayed throughout the town centre.

"Frederick William Elwell RA (29 June 1870 in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire – 3 January 1958 in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire) was an English painter in oils of portraits, interiors and figurative subjects. He exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Royal Academy, where he became a member in 1938, and painted a portrait of King George V in 1932." link

"Mary Dawson Elwell
1874–1952
Painter, notably of interiors, also landscapes, born in Liverpool, daughter of a shipping merchant. She married Hull oil broker George Holmes who died in 1913, then the painter Fred Elwell, with whom she studied, in 1914. His portrait of his wife is held by the Borough Council in Beverley, Yorkshire, where they settled. Her money enabled the Elwells to travel extensively on the continent. She exhibited often at RA, also at SWA, RSA, Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and elsewhere, although a stroke in 1945 incapacitated her. There was a retrospective of the work of the two Elwells in 1953 at Beverley Art Gallery and Ferens Art Gallery, Hull." link

Is Gravestone Showing Occupation or Hobby?: Occupation What is depicted occupation or hobby?: Painter / Artist Access hours and days: Unknown, but probably daylight hours Date of birth: Not listed Date of death: Not listed

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