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Dunlop (Marion Wallace, 1864-1942). Fairies and

Dunlop (Marion Wallace, 1864-1942). Fairies and hop flowers, oil on canvas, of a fairy in a diaphanous blue dress seated amongst hop flowers, and surrounded by four baby elves, initialled in right-hand corner MWD and dated 1902, 245 x 195 mm (9.75 x 7.75 ins), framed Marion Wallace Dunlop was a portrait painter, figure artist and illustrator. She worked in London from 1871, and exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Society of Women Artists, amongst other places. She illustrated Fairies, Elves and Flower Babies and The Magic Fruit Garden (both published 1899). Dunlop is also famous for her involvement in the Suffragette Movement. She was the first female suffragette to go on hunger strike, in 1909, after being arrested and sentenced to a month s imprisonment for painting a clause from the Bill of Rights on the House of Commons. She was committed to Holloway on the 1st July and began refusing food on the 5th July. She maintained her fast for 91 hours of fasting before she was released on the grounds of ill health. (1)