Annie Swynnerton

Annie Louisa Swynnerton, ARA was a British painter best known for her portrait and symbolist works. She studied at Manchester School of Art and at the Académie Julian, before basing herself in the artistic community in Rome with her husband, the monumental sculptor Joseph Swynnerton. Swynnerton was influenced by George Frederic Watts and Sir Edward Burne-Jones. John Singer Sargent appreciated her work and helped her to become the first elected woman member at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1922. Swynnerton painted portraits of Henry James and Millicent Fawcett. Her main public collection of works are in Manchester Art Gallery, but individual works are also held in a few other English cities, as well as can also be seen in Glasgow, Dublin, Paris, and two in Melbourne, Australia. Annie was a close friend of leading suffragists of the day, notably the Pankhurst family.

Early life

Annie Louisa Robinson was born in Hulme, Manchester in 1844. Her sisters Julia and Emily also studied at Manchester School of Art, recorded as being prize-winning students in The Manchester Guardian in 1873 (24 Dec, p8.) ==Education==

Education

Swynnerton trained at the Manchester School of Art, beginning in 1871. She won a gold prize and a scholarship for an oil and watercolour painting. From 1874 to 1876, she studied in Rome along with her friend and fellow artist, Susan Isabel Dacre. The women then studied at the Académie Julian in Paris from 1877 to 1880. Swynnerton was influenced by the works of Jules Bastien-Lepage. She lived in Manchester in 1880 and by 1882 was living in London. ==Artist==

Artist

Style Annie painted portraits, figures, symbolist works and landscapes. File:Watts-Paolo and Francesca.jpg|George Frederic Watts, Paolo and Francesca File:Annie Swynnerton Cupid And Psyche 1891.jpg|Annie Louisa Swynnerton, Cupid and Psyche, 1890, Gallery Oldham File:Swynnerton The sense of Sight.jpg|Annie Louisa Swynnerton, The Sense of Sight, oil on canvas, 1895, National Museums Liverpool File:Edward Burne-Jones Sidonia von Bork.jpg|Edward Burne-Jones, Sidonia von Borcke, 1860 Swynnerton's works incorporated aspects of Neoclassicism, Pre-Raphaelitism and Impressionism. She was also adept at painting children. and Louisa Garrett Anderson. She painted portraits of people close to the Garretts, including Henry James and Rev. William Gaskell, husband of novelist Elizabeth Gaskell. Swynnerton's work was also exhibited at other national and international exhibitions, including Aberdeen, Doncaster, Huddersfield, Manchester, and Chicago and Pittsburgh. Swynnerton was included in the 2018 exhibit Women in Paris 1850–1900. ==Suffragism==

Suffragism

She 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. ==Personal life==

Personal life

She met sculptor Joseph William Swynnerton, from the Isle of Man, possibly while the two were both living in Rome. They married in 1883 and lived primarily in Rome There was a posthumous sale of the contents of her former studio, removed from 1A The Avenue, 76 Fulham Road, London, SW3 at Christie's in London on 9 February 1934. This included her own work (both finished and unfinished), her small collection of pictures by Old Masters (including Guercino and Moroni) together with frames and easels. In her will, and in memory of Susan Isabel Dacre, she left a bequest to Francis Dodd, an artist. Swynnerton was described as follows: ==Collections==

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