F. M. Hollams


Florence or Frances Mabel Hollams, 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.

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. She was also one of the first female Royal Academicians, exhibiting eight paintings, and in 1899 was elected to the Society of Women Artists.
Charles Lionel Fox, land agent who worked for racehorse owners the Cazelet family, was her husband.
She signed her works "F.M. Hollams".

Works

A partial list of works is: