1. Louise Jane Jopling was an English painter of the Victorian era, and one of the most prominent female artists of her generation.
13 Facts About Louise Jopling
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Louise Jopling married at seventeen to civil servant Francis "Frank" Romer.
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The Baroness de Rothschild, a connection of Romer's, encouraged Louise Jopling to pursue and develop her art.
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Louise Jopling had another son, Lindsay Millais Jopling, by her second marriage; the child was named after his two godfathers Sir Coutts Lindsay, founder of the Grosvenor Gallery, and John Everett Millais.
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Louise Jopling exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
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Louise Jopling joined the Society of Women Artists and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters ; alongside Lucy Kemp-Welch she became one of the first woman to be admitted to the Royal Society of British Artists.
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Louise Jopling "painted portraits of titled sitters, wealthy financiers and actresses" and, to operate in this social milieu, she maintained a fashionable lifestyle, with a Chelsea studio at 28 Beaufort Street, designed by William Burges.
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Louise Jopling moved in a social circle that included James McNeill Whistler, Oscar Wilde, Kate Perugini and Ellen Terry.
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Joseph Jopling died in 1884 and Louise married lawyer George W Rowe in 1887 continuing to use Jopling's name professionally.
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Louise Jopling established her own school of painting for women and, in 1887, wrote several pieces on the subject of art teaching.
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Louise Jopling was a long-term supporter of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, and active in feminist causes.
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Louise Jopling served as a vice-president of the Healthy and Artistic Dress Union, a short-lived organization promoting dress reform during the 1890s and early 1900s.
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Louise Jopling published a book of art instruction, and an autobiography, Twenty Years of My Life.