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British Women Painters: 1893 Exposition Continued--Page 2

British Women Painters

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Elizabeth Forbes
Mary L. Gow
Kate Greenaway
Blanche Jenkins
Louise Goode Jopling

Elizabeth (Adela Armstrong) (Stanhope) Forbes (1859 - 1912)
 

Jean, Jeanne and Jeannette-- representative work

[title unknown]-- representative work

The Minuet--representative work

Blackberry Gathering 1912-- representative work

Goodnight --    representative work

Autumn Leaves -- representative work

The Witch (image unavailable)--
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace,1893 Exposition

Elizabeth Forbes was born in Canada and encouraged by her father, a government official, in her artistic interests.  Accompanied by her mother, she studied art in England, New York (Art Student's League), and Germany. Dissatisfied with the way women art students were treated, she joined other plein air painters in Port-Avon, Brittany where she was soon exhibiting and selling her paintings on peasant themes. In 1855 she met her future husband Stanhope Forbes at his art colony in Newlyn, Cornwall. After their marriage, they opened the Newlyn School of Painting in 1899.

School Is Out --image
Ring-a-Ring-O'roses --image
Woodland Scene, As You Like It--image
2 images/biography--A Zandvoort Fishergirl 1884;The Minuet 1892
Will o' the Wisp 1900--triptych plus drawing of woman.
27 images
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Mary Louise Gow (Hall) (1851 - 1929)
 

An Edwardian Lady-- representative work

Your Majesty-- representative work

Mother and Child--
representative work
 

Harmony--representative work
 

Fairy Tales --representative work
 

Children's Garden Party (1878)--representative work

        The Story of the Willow Pattern and Beggar My Neighbor
 (images unavailable)--exhibited in Fine Art Palace,
 1893 Exposition

Mary L. Gow and her artist brother (Andrew) were the children of genre-historical painter James Gow.  She received her training at Queen’s Square School of Art and the Heatherley School of Fine Art and often exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Academy, and the Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colours, but later became known for her children's books illustrations.  Mary and her brother were associated with the Lawrence Alma-Tadema circle of artists.  She married painter-illustrator Sydney Prior Hall.

Two prints

Kate Greenaway (1846 - 1901)

The Fern Gatherer--
representative painting

Portrait of a Young Girl--representative work
 

Title-page, Little Phyllis, and My little Girlie in Marigold Gardens;
 Mulberry Bush in Children's Games;
Game Play in Language of the Flowers;
Girl Drawing Chaise with Two Children (images unavailable,
 but click on the above links for examples on other webpages)
--6 illustrations exhibited in Fine Art Palace, 1893 Exposition

The daughter of a well-known wood-engraver, Kate Greenaway was born in London and studied art at a South Kensington School and at the Slade School.  In 1868 she began her highly  successful career as a commercial artist designing holiday cards and illustrating children's books.  The Regency-style costumes she created for those books eventually set a fashion in children's clothes. The Kate Greenaway Medal, established in her honor in 1956 by the British Library Association, is awarded annually to distinguished illustrators of children's books in the United Kingdom.

Biography/ 1 image
Longer Biography/many images
Biography/ more images

Blanche Jenkins (1855 ? - 1934 ?)

Louise (Goode) Jopling (Rowe) (1843 - 1933)
 

A Lady in Boudoir c. 1875-- representative watercolor

Blue and White [Home Bright Hearth Light] c. 1896.  Another copy here -- representative work.

Miss Ellen Terry as Portia-- representative work

Spanish Beauty-- representative work.

Young Woman Reading a Letter-- representative work.

Dear Lady Disdain--
[private collection, Washington, D.C.]
exhibited in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.
 

 Salome (image unavailable)--exhibited
 in Fine Arts Palace, 1893 Exposition.

Louise Jopling was born in Manchester, married at 17, and studied art with Charles Chaplin and Alfred Stevens in Paris. Widowed, she married artist Joseph Jopling. She exhibited at Grosvenor Gallery and was the first woman to be elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists. Jopling also campaigned successfully for equal rights for women members of the Society of Portrait Painters.  In 1887 Jopling set up a School of Painting to train professional women artists. Widowed again, she married George Rowe.  Her autobiography was published as Twenty Years of My Life.

Biography
Obituary/biography; biography
Biography/image--Five O'clock Tea
Samuel Smiles 1856--portrait

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