MANCHESTER SOCIETY OF WOMEN PAINTERS.

The Manchester Society of Women Painters* was founded at the beginning of October 1879, with Isabel as President, Annie as Secretary and Annie’s sister, Emily, as Treasurer. Exhibitions were held in the years 1880, 1882 and 1883, by which time Annie had moved to Rome.

THE MANCHESTER SOCIETY OF WOMEN PAINTERS (1880-1883).

Officers:

  • President: Susan Isabel DACRE (1880, 1882, 1883)
  • Secretary: Annie Louisa ROBINSON (1880, 1882, 1883)
  • Treasurer: Emily ROBINSON (1880)

Members, Associates and exhibitors:

  • ATKINSON, Jane (1880, 1882, 1883)
  • BERESFORD, Emily (1882)
  • BUTTERWORTH, N. (1883)
  • CRABTREE, Miss (1883)
  • EDGAR, Miss (1883)
  • KINGSLEY, Jessie Marion (1883)
  • MAGAN, Miss (1883)
  • MONKHOUSE, Mary Florence (1880, 1883)
  • MORGAN, Miss (1883)
  • PETRIE, Emeline (1880)
  • PITCAIRN, Miss (1883)
  • POLLITT, Jessie (1883)
  • POLLITT, Julia (1880, 1882)
  • SCOTT, Isabel C. (1882)
  • SUGARS, Fanny (1880)
  • THOMAS, F. (1883)
  • THOMPSON, E. Gertrude (1880, 1883)
  • WOOD, Eleanor S. (1880, 1882, 1883)
  • WROE, M. A. (1883)
  • WROE, M. McNicol (1883)

First Exhibition.

Second Exhibition.

Third Exhibition.

November 1883, “at Miss S. Isabel Dacre’s studio in South King-street” (The Manchester Evening News, 23 Nov 1883).

  • Atkinson, Miss Jane.
  • Beresford, Mrs.
  • Butterworth, Miss N.
  • Crabtree, Miss.
    • A Devonshire Fisher Boy.
    • Dorothy.
    • Fishing.
    • La Néveuse.
    • The Bay at Clovelly.
    • The Court Hill, Clovelly.
  • Dacre, S. Isabel.
    • Portrait of M. Guillaux.
    • Watching the Swans.
  • Edgar, Miss.
    • By the Sea.
  • Kingsley, Miss J. M.
  • Margan, Mrs.
  • Monkhouse, Miss M. F.
  • Pitcairn, Miss.
  • Pollit, Miss Jessie.
  • Sugars, Miss Fanny.
  • Swynnerton, Mrs. (née Miss Annie L. Robinson).
    • Oleander.
    • The Cruel Sea – “a large fine seascape”.
    • The Reading Girl.
  • Thomas, Miss F.
  • Thompson, Miss E. J.
  • Wood, Eleanor S.
    • A Corrie Maiden.
    • At the Ferry.
    • 107. Fruit.
    • Glen Lannox, Anan.
    • Marsh Marigolds.
    • On the Marshes.
  • Wroe, Miss M. A.
  • Wroe, Miss M. McNicol Wroe.

Source: The Manchester Evening News, 23 Nov 1883.

* The group has sometimes been incorrectly named the Manchester Society of Female Painters, Manchester Society of Female Artists or Manchester Society of Women Artists in both historic and more recent publications, but the correct name has always been the Manchester Society of Women Painters.