Selina Bracebridge

Selina Bracebridge (née Mills; 1800 – 1874) was a British artist, medical reformer, and travel writer.

Selina Bracebridge
Born
Selina Mills

c. 1800
Died1874
NationalityBritish
Spouse(s)Charles Bracebridge

Selina Bracebridge studied art under the celebrated artist Samuel Prout, and travelled widely as part of her art education.[1]

She married Charles Holte Bracebridge (1799-1872) in 1824, and lived in Athens for much of the 1830s.[2]

She became close friends with Florence Nightingale in 1846, and the Bracebridges travelled with her to Rome from 1847 to 1848, and around Europe, Greece, and Egypt between 1849 and 1850.[2]

The Bracebridges acted as administrative assistants to Nightingale for nine months at the Barrack Hospital during the Crimean War. When Nightingale fell dangerously ill at Balaclava in May 1855 they escorted her back to Scutari.[3]

Jerry Barrett, The Mission of Mercy: Florence Nightingale receiving the Wounded at Scutari, 1857, oil on canvas, National Portrait Gallery, London.

She is one of the subjects in Jerry Barrett’s large 1857 painting The Mission of Mercy: Florence Nightingale receiving the Wounded at Scutari.

She and Nightingale remained close until her death in 1874, and Nightingale lamented her loss in a letter, saying ‘She was more than a mother to me’.[4]

Selected works
  • A Fortified Town on a Hilltop (North side of the Acropolis, Athens), watercolour, c. 1825-1855[5]
  • Palestine, an album containing 5 maps, 2 architectural drawings, 36 landscape sketches and 4 etchings, c.1833[6]
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References
  1. "Selina Bracebridge". Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery.
  2. University of Wolverhampton. "Selina Bracebridge". Women’s Travel Writing, 1780-1840: A Bio-Bibliographical Database.
  3. Lynn., McDonald (2005-01-01). Florence Nightingale on women, medicine, midwifery and prostitution. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. pp. vol 8, 525–526. ISBN 9780889204669. OCLC 602965491.
  4. Mark, Bostridge (2009-01-01). Florence Nightingale : the woman and her legend. Viking. pp. cdlvi. ISBN 9780140263923. OCLC 973644349.
  5. "A Fortified Town on a Hilltop (North side of the Acropolis, Athens)". Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery. Retrieved 15 March 2017.
  6. "Bracebridge, Selina". Search the Collections – Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 15 March 2017.


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