F. M. Hollams

Who was F. M. Hollams?

F. M. Hollams was a popular British painter of horses and dogs, active in the first decades of the 20th Century. She is noted for her technique of painting on wood panel with no background, so that the grain of the wood is visible.

Mabel Hollams was a prolific painter of animals, mainly horses. her works occasionally come up for auction and fetch reasonable prices. She painted for Royalty and many aristocratic families. One of her paintings, a royal horse, hangs in the Mounted Branch Museum at Imber Court. She was also one of the first female Royal Academicians.