Our subject today, Helen Allingham (September 26, 1848 to September 28, 1926) was a painter in watercolor, and her husband, William Allingham, was an Irish poet. They maried on August 22, 1874. It sounds like a marriage made in a novelistic heaven, and so it seems to have been on earth. They had three sons. Helen illustrated her husband's book for children. And through it all, she kept painting. After the war ended, and her art came to be judged sentimental, and Victorian, she kept painting. Scenes like this:
She just kept painting until hours before her sudden death.
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