A talented victim of the Spanish Flu Epidemic (1918)

A talented victim of the Spanish Flu Epidemic (1918)

I am posting this mainly for the above enchanting image of a painting entitled "The Orchard" by Nelly Erichsen a little known artist from the Victorian and Edwardian period. It is taken from an article 

Book Review: Nelly Erichsen, A Hidden Life

on the http://fannycornforth.blogspot.com/ blog from which the following extracts come.

"The biography is stuffed full of lovely images which is brilliant as it is hard to find illustrations of Nelly's work online, certainly not of the same quality as appear in A Hidden Life.  Nelly's art has a lot in common with both Pre-Raphaelite works, in such pieces as The Magic Crystal, and a sort of realist/idealist rural school in works like The Orchard...

Sadly Nelly did not have the long and successful life she possibly deserved.  Remaining unmarried meant she continued to work, unfettered by a husband, but the First World War intervened and she travelled with friends to help refugees in Bagni di Lucca in Italy, establishing a school for children displaced by war.  When the Spanish flu hit the region in 1918, Nelly was one of the casualties, just as the Armistice was called. She died at only 55 years old.

Lies, damn lies and statistics? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LydLELH49rc&feature=youtu.be&t=242&fbclid=IwAR0ParpZz8F0cWBYIbjyOmMtJNN90NLXfIFpSBmAaLi_3asqHsv3QBB-j2w