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Dorothy Fitchew (1884-1976)

Dorothy Fitchew (1884-circa 1976)

Dorothy Fitchew was a landscape and figure painter and illustrator, specialising in natural history subjects.

Dorothy Fitchew was born in Camberwell, the daughter of the illustrator and art editor, Edward Hubert Fitchew (1851-1934). By 1910, the family was living at The Oriels, Widmore, Bromley, Kent. From there, she sent ‘large and elaborate watercolours of Shakespearean and legendary subjects’ (Simon Houfe) to the Royal Academy and other leading exhibition venues in the years 1911-15.

By 1930, Fitchew was working as an illustrator, in that year collaborating with Charles Folkard on an edition of nursery rhymes. Increasingly, she specialised in natural history subjects, her work as an illustrator appearing in such books as W J Stokoe’s Mother Nature’s Wild Animals (1939), S B Whitehead’s In Your Flower Garden (1947) and M C Carey’s Wild Flowers at a Glance (1949). She also wrote and illustrated Good Health to the Garden (1946).

By 1949, Fitchew was a member of the Quekett Microscopical Club, and living at 30 The Fairway, Bickley, Bromley, Kent. In 1976, the club’s journal recorded her death.

Her work is represented in the collections of the Natural History Museum.

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