page_title: Averil Burleigh
section_title: Style and Technique
hierarchical_section_title: Averil Burleigh / Style and Technique
caption_attribution_description: English: Burleigh, Averil; Washerwomen; Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/washerwomen-74491 say 1930
context_page_description: Averil Mary Burleigh born Averil Mary Dell was a British artist and painter. Based in Sussex, Burleigh was known for painting in egg tempera with the subject usually involving a central figure. Her husband and daughter also painted but she is the best regarded of the three.
context_section_description: Burleigh specialised in tempera painting, although she also worked in chalk and watercolour. Her works tend to have a bright colour palette with contrasting colours to lead the eye around the picture. A sharp luminosity and strong sense of design govern Burleigh's tempera and watercolour paintings. Frequently, her works portray decorative renaissance subjects, usually dominated by a female figure who is regularly modelled on her daughter, Veronica Burleigh. Burleigh however is also known to have completed images of still life and flowers. Over her career Burleigh's Pre-Raphaelite manner developed in to a freer style.
caption: Washerwomen
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