Detail; Shooting the Rapids, c. 1879
Oil on canvas
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Frances Anne Hopkins (2 February 1838–5 March 1919) was born in London, England to Frederick William Beechey, a hydrographer and a Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy, and Charlotte Stapleton.
Hopkins was from an upper-middle-class family. She came from a family of artists and Arctic explorers. Hopkins’ paintings and drawings suggest artistic training, but this may have been at home rather than in formal schooling…
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