1. Annie Swynnerton studied at Manchester School of Art and at the Academie Julian, before basing herself in the artistic community in Rome with her husband, the monumental sculptor Joseph Swynnerton.
19 Facts About Annie Swynnerton
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Annie Swynnerton was a close friend of leading suffragists of the day, notably the Pankhurst family.
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Annie Swynnerton Louisa Robinson was born in Hulme, Manchester in 1844.
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Annie Swynnerton's parents were Francis Robinson, a solicitor, and Ann Sanderson.
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Annie Swynnerton made and sold watercolours to supplement the family's income during a difficult financial period.
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Annie Swynnerton trained at the Manchester School of Art, beginning in 1871.
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Annie Swynnerton won a gold prize and a scholarship for an oil and watercolour painting.
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Annie Swynnerton lived in Manchester in 1880 and by 1882 was living in London.
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Annie Swynnerton's drawing was solid, and she had a sculptural grasp of form allied to fresh, broken colour displaying affinities with Impressionism.
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Annie Swynnerton painted Dacre's portrait, which was exhibited in 1880 at the Royal Academy of Arts.
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Annie Swynnerton was the second woman to sit on the Liverpool Autumn Exhibition hanging committee in 1895.
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Annie Swynnerton painted portraits of members of the Garrett family, including Agnes Garrett, Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, which was purchased by the Chantrey Bequest for the nation and is at the Tate Gallery, and Louisa Garrett Anderson.
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Annie Swynnerton painted portraits of people close to the Garretts, including Henry James and Rev William Gaskell, husband of novelist Elizabeth Gaskell.
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Annie Swynnerton gave the nation The Oreads made by Swynnerton.
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Annie Swynnerton was instrumental in her election in 1922 to become the first female associate of the Royal Academy since the 18th century and the first woman to be elected into the organisation.
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Annie Swynnerton's work was exhibited at other national and international exhibitions, including Aberdeen, Doncaster, Huddersfield, Manchester, and Chicago and Pittsburgh.
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Annie Swynnerton was an active supporter of the women's suffrage movement of the time, and was a signatory to the 1889 National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies' Declaration in Favour of Women's Suffrage.
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Annie Swynnerton met sculptor Joseph William Swynnerton, from the Isle of Man, possibly while the two were both living in Rome.
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Annie Swynnerton was a talented artist and an accomplished woman, though scarcely one of whom it could be said she possessed a charm of manner.