Literature: Llewellyn, Sacha, and Paul Liss. Portrait of an Artist. Liss Llewellyn, 2021, p.26.
Margaret Gere was a painter,
notably in tempera, born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. She was the
sister of the artist Charles March Gere, studied under him from 1897 at
Birmingham School of Art and like him was an original member of the
Birmingham Group of Painters and Craftsmen. The copying of Piero della
Francesca in tempera in Florence in 1901 had marked effect on her work,
and she further studied at Slade School of Fine Art, 1905. Showed with
and was a member of NEAC and RBSA and had first exhibition with her
brother at Carfax Gallery, 1912. Represented in The Earthly Paradise
exhibition at Fine Art Society, 1969. Cheltenham Art Gallery devoted a
show to her in 1984. Tate Gallery holds her picture Noah’s Ark. She and
her sister Edith, who married the artist Henry Payne, were known as “the
masterful Miss Geres”.