Eileen Soper Prints and Multiples
British, 1905-1990
Eileen Soper, born in 1905 was the second daughter of an accomplished artist, George Soper, who was an engraver, etcher and illustrator. Taught by her father, George Soper, she showed early promise as an artist. Two of her etchings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London when she was 15. She showed three prints at an exhibition organized by the International Society of Printmakers in California. Soper continued to produce around 180 etchings mostly of children at play into the early 1930s. Her work was popular and well-received and shown in the UK and the USA. Today, Soper is best known for her collaboration with Enid Blyton, most notably all of the Famous Five books. She produced a series of etchings mainly of children playing and illustrated books for other writers, notably for Enid Blyton and Elizabeth Gould, and wrote and illustrated her own children's book. Some of her illustrations of children and animals were used in a china series for children by Paragon China in the 1930s. Later in life, she concentrated on writing and illustrating wildlife books. Soper was a founder member of the Society of Wildlife Artists (SWLA) and was elected a member of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers (RMS) in 1972.
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Artist: Eileen Soper
Children freeing a caged bird
By Eileen Soper
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream wove paper, 4 1/2 x 7 inches (114 x 177 mm), wide margins, signed in pencil in the lower right. Laid down to non-archival board with the mat affixed, obscuring the verso and the sheet edges. The visible portion of the sheet is clean with minor toning around the mat window opening. The signature is unobscured and clear.
Best known as the original illustrator of Enid Blyton...
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The New Pupil /// Antique Modern Female Artist Etching Child Children Figurative
By Eileen Soper
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Eileen Alice Soper (English, 1905-1990)
Title: "The New Pupil"
*Signed by Soper in pencil lower right
Year: 1925
Medium: Original Etching on unbranded white wove paper
Limite...
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The Tragedy /// Modern Female Artist Children Child Cute Toy Childhood Etching
By Eileen Soper
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Eileen Alice Soper (English, 1905-1990)
Title: "The Tragedy"
*Signed by Soper in pencil lower right
Year: 1922
Medium: Original Etching on cream laid paper
Limited edition: 264
Printer: Likely printed by Eva Soper, London, UK
Publisher: H C Dickens, London, UK
Reference: "The Catalogue Raisonne of Prints and Etchings of George and Eileen Soper" - Beetles No. 31, page 111, 141, 155
Sheet size: 9.13" x 5.5"
Image size: 3.88" x 6"
Condition: Remnants of previous mounting tape at right edges. In excellent condition
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Boulder, CO.
Biography:
Eileen Soper was born in 1905 in the Municipal Borough of Enfield and moved to the house where she was to spend the rest of her life in Harmer Green, Welwyn in the Hertfordshire countryside in 1908. The house she later named "Wildings" was built by her father, the artist George Soper...
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1920s Modern Eileen Soper Prints and Multiples
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Spring Song /// Antique Female Artist Children Child Etching British Art
By Eileen Soper
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Eileen Alice Soper (English, 1905-1990)
Title: "Spring Song"
*Signed by Soper in pencil lower right
Year: 1924
Medium: Original Etching on cream laid paper
Limited edition: 178
Printer: Likely printed by Eva Soper, London, UK
Publisher: H C Dickens, London, UK
Reference: "The Catalogue Raisonne of Prints and Etchings of George and Eileen Soper" - Beetles No. 83, page 119, 141, 157
Sheet size: 8.13" x 10.13"
Image size: 6.63" x 9.63"
Condition: Paper trimmed in the margins. A few faint areas of discoloration. It is otherwise a strong impression in very good condition
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Boulder, CO.
Biography:
Eileen Soper was born in 1905 in the Municipal Borough of Enfield and moved to the house where she was to spend the rest of her life in Harmer Green, Welwyn in the Hertfordshire countryside in 1908. The house she later named "Wildings" was built by her father, the artist George Soper...
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1920s Modern Eileen Soper Prints and Multiples
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Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching, Intaglio
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