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Originally intending
to be a portrait painter, Edith Linnell successfully experimented
with jewelry making and metalwork design in the early 20th century;
her works receiving a medal and were purchased by the Board of Education
for permanent display in the Victoria & Albert museum, London.
Following the Arts & Crafts tradition, her designs were naturalistic
in style based on her years of study as an artist when she drew
from nature. Her extensive travels throughout the world provided
the perfect opportunity to source gemstones for her designs. Originally
based in the Burlington Arcade, Picadilly, Linnell later established
premises at 184 Sloane Street; exhibited at the Arlington Gallery,
22 Old Bond Street and had showcases in Harrods and on RMS Queen
Mary. Linnell also displayed her work at the last exhibition of
the Arts & Crafts Society in London and St. Louis, the Baillie
Gallery, London, The Albert Hall, London and the Walker Art Gallery,
Liverpool. The advent of the second world war saw the end of her
business when her Sloane Street premises were bombed during the
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