Rosa Howlett
Rosa Howlett | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1863 Norwich, Norfolk, England |
| Died | 1961 Hertford, Hertfordshire, England |
| Movement | Arts and Crafts |
Rosa Elizabeth Howlett (c. 1863–1961) was a British artist and suffragette.
Biography
Howlett was born in Norwich, Norfolk, and was the daughter of a leather merchant and shoe manufacturer.[1]
Howlett studied under Hubert von Herkomer at his school in Bushey.[2] Her painting "Market Scene" is held in the collection of the Bushey Museum and Art Gallery.[3] She exhibited at the Royal Albert Hall with The London Salon of the Allied Artists' Association in 1901 and 1911.[4]
In 1916, Howlett co-exhibited the work Noah's Ark at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, which she constructed with Margaret West,[5][6] who she shared a home with.[7] She was also friends with Virginia Woolf.[2]
Howlett was active in the women's suffrage movement. When a branch of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was opened in Norwich in 1912,[8] she was appointed a local secretary.[9]
Howlett died in 1961 in Hertford, Hertfordshire.
References
- ^"HOWLETT Rosa Elizabeth 1863-1961". Artist Biographies. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
- ^ abRussell, Eugenia; Russell, Quentin (30 September 2021). Struggle and Suffrage in Watford: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality. Pen and Sword History. ISBN 978-1-5267-1268-4.
- ^"Howlett, Rosa Elizabeth, 1863–1961". Art UK. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
- ^"Rosa Howlett". Database of Modern Exhibitions (DoME) | European Paintings and Drawings 1905-1915. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
- ^"Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society | ID_1916_362-LITHOGRAPHY: 126 |". British and Irish Furniture Makers Online (BIFMO). Retrieved 21 February 2025.
- ^"Noah's Ark" Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
- ^Woolf, Virginia (1980). The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-15-626040-4.
- ^"100 years of Women's Suffrage in Norwich". Visit Norwich. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
- ^Crawford, Elizabeth (15 April 2013). The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey. Routledge. p. 83. ISBN 978-1-136-01062-0.
