Ethel Wright (painter)
Ethel Wright | |
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| Born | 1866 London, England |
| Died | 1939 (aged 72–73) |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Occupation | painter |
| Known for | portraiture |
| Spouse(s) | Mr Bradley |
Ethel Wright later Ethel Bradley (1866 – 1939) was a British painter. Although Wright has several paintings in British national collections, her most famous work is a portrait of Christabel Pankhurst.
Life[]
Wright was born in London and she studied at Académie Julian in Paris as advised by Solomon Joseph Solomon.[1] There is a portrait of her by . She achieved a profile as a painter in the 1890s identified in the modernist Rhythm Group.[2] She was known for painting and her paintings were frequently exhibited at the Royal Academy.[3] She achieved some success as a painter but she was identified as a great woman artist. She became a supporter of the suffragettes.[4] By 1898 she was exhibiting at the Oldham Gallery and she was "also known as Mrs Bradley".[1]
A portrait she made of Christabel Pankhurst was bought by the leading suffragette Una Duval after it was exhibited by the Women's Social and Political Union's art exhibition, held at the Prince's Ice Rink in Knightsbridge and funded by Clara Mordan, in May 1909.[4][5][6] Wright would later paint a portrait of Duval.
She continued to support the suffragettes and her paintings were still being exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1927.[3] Wright died in 1939.
Legacy[]
Her painting of Christabel Pankhurst was donated by Duval's descendant to the National Portrait Gallery in 2011.[2] It was exhibited in 2018 when it was noted that the gallery had previously only had pictures of suffragettes taken by the police as suspicious characters.[4]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Ethel Bradley?". The Artist. 1898.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Dame Christabel Pankhurst - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Broadley, Rosie (5 March 2015). "Suffragette Painter: discovering Ethel Wright". National Portrait Gallery (London). Retrieved 8 February 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Brown, Mark (2014-07-24). "Portrait of an angry lady: suffragette Christabel Pankhurst goes on display". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
- ^ "Clara Mordan". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
- ^ [Sheila Stowell, A Stage of their own: Feminist playwrights of the suffrage era (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992), p. 53]
External links[]
- 4 artworks by or after Ethel Wright at the Art UK site
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- British portrait painters
- Alumni of the Académie Julian