1906
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Waterlilies is a 1906 watercolor by Beatrix Potter, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Beatrix Potter painted *Waterlilies* in 1906 using watercolour. It shows a close-up of water lilies, likely at Esthwaite Water in the Lake District. The flowers and lily pads are lit by bright sunlight. Potter used this scene as inspiration for *The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher*, her book published the same year. Esthwaite Water is now a protected wildlife site. If you like this, look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A landscape-format watercolor depicts three open white water lilies surrounded by numerous lily pads and reeds, with sunlight illuminating the scene. The work was likely painted around 1906 near Esthwaite Water in the Lake District, close to the village of Near Sawrey. It is part of the Linder Bequest, donated to the Victoria and Albert Museum by Leslie Linder in 1973.
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Helen Beatrix Heelis (née Potter; 28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943), usually known as Beatrix Potter ( BEE-ə-triks), was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist.
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