English artist Charles Sillem Lidderdale (1830 - 1895) (100 works)

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Charles Sillem Lidderdale (born September 28, 1830, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire - 1895, London) was an English genre artist and portrait painter.

Charles Salem Lidderdale was born into the family of a Scotsman, a bank employee, John Lidderdale (1782-1845), who worked in St. Petersburg. At the age of 13 he moved to England with his family.

In 1856, Charles submitted his first artistic works to a competition and was accepted into the Royal Academy of Arts. Between 1856 and 1893, 36 of Charles Lidderdale's paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy.

Lidderdale was a popular genre painter. He devoted his canvases, first of all, to the depiction of young women and children against the backdrop of rural landscapes; the artist’s especially successful works were paintings of Spanish women and gypsies. The artist’s pastoral female portraits were especially popular with the public.

Having problems with his eyesight, Charles Lidderdale was forced to give up working with watercolors because they required more attention than oil paints. But his few surviving watercolor works evoke the admiration of specialists for their technique and color.
Charles Lidderdale was a member of the Society of British Artists and often exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, the British Institute of Arts and the gallery of the Society of British Artists.

In 1862, Charles Lidderdale married Keziah Morris and the marriage produced 4 children.

The artist spent almost his entire life in London. Charles died in 1895 and was buried in his mother's grave in Kensal Green Cemetery.
His few paintings and portraits were taken by his heirs to Scotland and New Zealand and are in private collections.