Charles Sillem Lidderdale, a popular genre painter based throughout his life in London, devoted most of his efforts to portraying single females in rural landscapes. He had a particular devotion to paintings of pretty girls. He was a member of the Society of British Artists, exhibited at the Royal Academy, the British Institute and the Society of British Artists at Suffolk Street. The 1870-1894 diaries, account books, and notebooks of Charles Sillem Lidderdale are held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, National Art Library.