Jessie MacGregor
Macgregor first learned drawing at the drawing academy in Liverpool run by her grandfather Andrew Hunt. Her parents went to live in London and she began to study painting there, becoming a pupil at the Royal Academy Schools where her teachers were Lord Leighton, P. Calderon, R.A, and John Pettie, R.A. She won a gold medal at the Royal Academy for history painting in December 1871. She was the second woman after Louisa Starr's gold medal in 1867, and the last woman to do so until 1909.
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Jessie MacGregor
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- Name
- Jessie Macgregor
- Died
- 1919
- Place of death
- Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Education
- Royal Academy
- Field
- Painting Jessie Macgregor (1847–1919) was a British painter.
- Born
- 1847 · Liverpool.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- painting
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Macgregor first learned drawing at the drawing academy in Liverpool run by her grandfather Andrew Hunt. Her parents went to live in London and she began to study painting there, becoming a pupil at the Royal Academy Schools where her teachers were Lord Leighton, P. Calderon, R.A, and John Pettie, R.A. She won a gold medal at the Royal Academy for history painting in December 1871. She was the second woman after Louisa Starr's gold medal in 1867, and the last woman to do so until 1909.
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She beat Julia Cecilia Smith and Julia Bracewell Folkard. It was noted how these three women's achievements revealed the silliness of the rules that excluded women from becoming full members of the Royal Academy. Macgregor exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893's World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. Her painting In the Reign of Terror (1891; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool) was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World. • Illustration — Jephthah, 1889
Macgregor, Jessie; Jephthah; Walker Art Gallery; http: www.artuk.org/artworks/jephthah-97806
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Macgregor, Jessie; Waiting; Williamson Art Gallery Museum; http: www.artuk.org/artworks/waiting-67489
Jessie MacGregor
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• Name — Jessie Macgregor • Died — 1919 • Place of death — Liverpool, United Kingdom • Education — Royal Academy • Field — Painting Jessie Macgregor (1847–1919) was a British painter.
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- 1.Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D., by Clara Erskine Clement, 1904
- 2.Louisa Starr and Jessie Macgregor and their gold medals in The Dictionary of British Women Artists, by Sara Gray, 2009
- 3.Routledge. A Gallery of Her Own: An Annotated Bibliography of Women in Victorian Painting. 22. 26 November 2013. 978-1-135-49441-4.
- 4.Nichols, K. L. Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893.
- 5.Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905
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