Edith Scannell (1852-1940)Study of a Young Girl with Hat Oil on canvas, 98 x 75cm (38½ x 29½)Signed Edith Maud Susanna Scannell (1852-1940) lived and worked in Kensington, London. She studied for two years under M. Jacquand in Paris, but also in Florence, Rome and Pisa, under Bellucci, Bompiani and Lanfredini, and for a short time at the Slade School of Art in London.She exhibited eleven works at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin between 1885 and 1897, was a regular contributor to the Royal Academy in London, and in Italy and Belgium. Her favoured subjects were children, which it is said she painted 'con amore', and she was known for a charming freshness and naivety in her painting style. Edith Scannell found much work as both illustrator for The Art Amateur magazine, and also as an illustrator of children's books in England and the USA.