Charlotte, Emily and Anne? Stella Vine
Painter Stella Vine has stepped in to try and revive the fortunes of the church in Haworth, Yorkshire where Charlotte and Emily Bront? are buried.Vine has painted one-off portrait of the famous sisters and is auctioning off signed limited edition prints at ?150 a time to help raise funds to repair the roof of St Michael and All Angels Parish Church where their father Patrick was vicar between 1820 and 1861.
Both the church and the nearby Parsonage, where the sisters wrote many of their masterpieces including Emily's Wuthering Heights and Charlotte's Jane Eyre, have become a place of pilgrimage for thousands of visitors each year.??
During a recent trip to Haworth, Vine was shocked by the state of the church roof, which has been damaged by rain and targeted by thieves.
St Michael and all Angels Church, Haworth? Photo Frank Glover www.geograph.co.uk via Wikimedia Commons
"I...was greatly saddened to see the Bront? Church in a terrible state, and in desperate need of repair," says Vine. "It urgently needs to find funding to match an English Heritage grant or they could lose the grant in the next two weeks."The church needs to raise over ?20,000 towards a total of ?65,000 to release ?100,000 from English Heritage.?
Vine's painting, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, recalls the famous group portrait (circa 1834) of the Bront? sisters by their brother Branwell, but with the unmistakable na?ve style she has developed in her famous celebrity portraiture.
She is offering a series of 100 limited edition quality giclee prints of the painting. Each is signed, titled and dated 2012 on the front, with a message of thanks on the reverse for the church fund. The approx print size is 44cm x 37cm (with a 6cm border on each side).
The prints are now available via www.stellavine.com at ?150 per print. All profits from the sale will be given to the appeal.
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