Louise Rayner
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Louise Rayner | |
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Born | |
Died | 8 October 1924 | (aged 92)
Nationality | English |
Louise Ingram Rayner (21 June 1832 – 8 October 1924) was a British
watercolour artist
.
Family
Rayner was born in
Royal Academy. The family lived in Matlock Bath and Derby
until 1842 when they moved to London.
Education
Rayner studied painting from the age of fifteen, at first with her father and later with established artist friends of the family such as
Edmund Niemann, David Roberts and Frank Stone. Her first exhibited work, an oil painting entitled The Interior of Haddon Chapel, was shown at the Royal Academy in 1852, the first of a series of oils
.
Watercolour
Society of Lady Artists, The Royal Academy, Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of British Artists
.
Chester
Tunbridge Wells, and later to St Leonards
, where she died on 8 October 1924, aged 92.
Collections
Rayner's work is represented in the collections of at the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth, Derby Museum and Art Gallery[2] and the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, which possesses 23 of her watercolours, the largest in any public collection.
References
- ^ Simon Fenwick, ‘Rayner, Samuel (1806–1879)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 14 Feb 2011
- ^ "Louise J. Rayner (1832–1924)". Dudley Mail. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
Sources
- Simon Fenwick, "Rayner, Samuel (1806–1879)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 26 June 2007
- Louise Rayner, Chester City Council
External links
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- Louise Rayner DudleyMall page featuring many works
- Louise Rayner Artist Information site by relative