Elsie Marian Henderson
Other names: Baroness de Coudenhove
Born 28 May 1880
Died 1 July 1967
Active: 1903 - 1946
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, painter, printmaker, draughtswoman
Born in Sussex, she was raised in Guernsey. Her mother was an amateur painter and encouraged her to draw. Elsie studied at the Slade School 1903–5 where she was taught by Fred Brown, Henry Tonks and Wilson Steer. From 1908 she studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi; she then travelled in Germany and Italy (1913). During the First World War she completed her training by studying lithography under Ernest Jackson at the Chelsea Polytechnic.
Henderson then started her own press and became a member of the Senefelder Club, Women's International Art Club, Monarro Group, Society of Graver-Printers in Colour, amongst other societies. Her practice focused on animals, chiefly wild animals, from 1916 onwards, and she often studied at London zoo. Henderson had her first exhibition of drawings, prints and sculpture at the Leicester Galleries in 1924. This was followed by a solo show at the Redfern Gallery in 1929 and another at the Storran Gallery in 1935.
In 1928 she married Henri Baron de Coudenhove, who was French Consul in Guernsey. After her husband's death in 1946 Henderson left Guernsey and settled at Hadlow Down, Sussex. There she continued to paint, but made no more prints or sculpture. There are some examples of her work in Guernsey Museums and Galleries.
Wealth at death: £26,121 0s. 0d.
Probate date: 25 September 1967
Works
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Locations
Address 8 Glazbury Road London | View on map
1917 (Circa)
Address 38 Glodstanes Road West Kensington London | View on map
1918 (Circa)
Address 40 Glazbury Road London | View on map
1919
Address 170 Holland Park Avenue London W11 | View on map
1921 (Circa) - 1924 (Circa)
Address 27 Old Bond Street London W | View on map
1933 (Circa)
c/o the Redfern Gallery
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Drawings, Lithographs and Sculptures of Wild Animals by Elsie M. Henderson (Leicester Galleries), 1924
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Fifty-Eighth Annual Exhibition, 1919
'Lion and Lioness on the Watch'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1917 - 1933
Exhibited 8 times, 11 works in all (a mixture of paintings, sculptures and drawings)
Sources
20th Century Painters and Sculptors
1991
p.233
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Elsie Marian De coudenhove
Death Date: 1 Jul 1967
Death Place: Sussex
Probate Date: 25 Sep 1967
Probate Registry: Lewes
The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture: Devoted to the works in the collection by all British artists ... born in or after 1850 Tate Gallery catalogues
1964
Accessed online at: http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1267&page=1&sole=y&collab=y&attr=y&sort=default&tabview=bio
Citing this record
'Elsie Marian Henderson', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1207701112, accessed 30 May 2023]
