Frances Mabel Hollams (1877–1963), who signed her works F.M. Hollams, was a popular British painter of horses and dogs, active in the first three decades of the 20th century. She is noted for her technique of painting on wood panel with no background, so that the grain of the wood is visible.British Artist Biographies: F M (Florence Mabel) Hollams, British Fine Arts website. Retrieved 2013-12-30. Growing up at Dene Park in Shipbourne she later moved to Puttenden Manor near the hamlet of Dunks Green.
Education Mabel studied under the artist Frank Calderdon and, at a time when most schools did not accept female students, she studied in Paris at Académie Julian.
Career Hollams was a prolific painter of animals, mainly horses. Her works occasionally come up for auction and fetch reasonable prices. She painted for Royalty and many aristocratic families. One of her paintings, a royal horse, hangs in the Mounted Branch Museum at Imber Court. In 1899 was elected to the Society of Women Artists.
She was married to Charles Lionel Fox, a land agent who worked for racehorse owners the Cazelet family.
She signed her pieces with "F.M. Hollams".Paul Pfisterer (1 January 1999). Signaturenlexikon / Dictionary of Signatures. Walter de Gruyter. p. 308. .
Works A partial list of works is: A Chestnut Thorough Called 'Enterprise', oil, National Trust Collection, EnglandA Chestnut Thorough Called 'Enterprise'. Your Paintings. BBC. Retrieved August 19, 2014. A Roan Horse, oil on varnished pantel, National Trust, EnglandA Roan Horse. Your Paintings. BBC. Retrieved August 19, 2014. 'Columcille,' a Horse in a Stable, 1937, oil on canvas, National Trust, England 'Columcille,' a Horse in a Stable. Your Paintings. BBC. Retrieved August 19, 2014. General Fanshawe's Hunter, 'Ich Dien', 1949, oil on canvas, 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards Heritage Trust, EnglandGeneral Fanshawe's Hunter, 'Ich Dien'. Your Paintings. BBC. Retrieved August 19, 2014. General Fanshawe's Hunter 'Mayfly', 1943, oil on canvas, 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards Heritage Trust, EnglandGeneral Fanshawe's Hunter 'Mayfly'. Your Paintings. BBC. Retrieved August 19, 2014. 'Halse', a Chestnut Hunter, 1926, oil on panel, National Trust, England 'Halse', a Chestnut Hunter. Your Paintings. BBC. Retrieved August 19, 2014. His Last Fence, before 1906"Sport and Animal Life at the Royal Academy". Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes. 1906. p. 451. Something Wrong, before 1898, sketch, illustrationRoyal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Henry Blackburn (1898). Academy Notes. Chatto and Windus. p. 8.
References
External links Frances Mabel Hollams on artnet