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Georgina Greenlees
Born13 May 1849
Glasgow, Scotland
Died6 February 1932
London
NationalityScottish
SpouseGraham Kinloch Wylie

Georgina Mossman Greenlees (1849–1932) was a Scottish artist known for her landscape painting.[1] She was an advocate for art education and practice for women.[2]

Biography

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Greenlees was the daughter of Robert Greenlees, headmaster of the Glasgow School of Art from 1863 to 1881.[3] Greenlees married Graham Kinloch Wylie, a landscape painter, in October 1885.[1] Greenlees attended the Glasgow School of Art in the early 1870s.[4][2] She studied painting, design and drawing and was awarded a national Queen's Prize for a lace curtain design in 1870.[2]

Greenlees often painted Scottish landscapes, and was also known for her depictions of women.[1] Her works are held in public collections including A Little Waif, held by the McManus Gallery in Dundee, and a portrait of James Sellars in the Glasgow Museums collection.[5]

Greenlees exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London during 1878 and 1880.[6] She also exhibited at Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts in 1867, when she was eighteen, and later at the Royal Scottish Academy.[2] In 1879, Greenlees was elected to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour.[7] She exhibited with the society from 1878, and her work was included in the Fourth Exhibition held in 1881.[8][9]

Greenlees taught at the Glasgow School of Art from 1874 to 1881, when she was one of two women teaching at the school, who both resigned from their positions.[4][1] Greenlees maintained a professional artistic career while continuing to teach privately, which was in direct opposition to the policies of the Glasgow School of Art.[1][2]

Greenlees was a founding member and first president of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists.[4] The society was formed early in 1882 during a meeting at the studio Georgina shared with her father at 136 Wellington Street, Glasgow.[10][2] The society was the first of its kind to be formed in Scotland and represented the need for women art practitioners to exhibit their work and socialise with other artists.[11]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e The biographical dictionary of Scottish women : from the earliest times to 2004. Ewan, Elizabeth., Innes, Sue., Reynolds, Sian. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2006. ISBN 9780748626601. OCLC 367680960.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. ^ a b c d e f Helland, Janice (11 June 2019). Professional women painters in nineteenth-century Scotland : commitment, friendship, pleasure. London. ISBN 9781351757256. OCLC 1104533372.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ "Greenlees, Georgina | Benezit Dictionary of Artists". www.oxfordartonline.com. 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00400703. ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
  4. ^ a b c Brownrigg, Jenny. "The ladies would seem to have turned their attention: tracing the founding members' of Glasgow Society of Lady Artists" (PDF). Glasgow School of Art. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
  5. ^ Wright, Christopher, 1945- (2006). British and Irish paintings in public collections: an index of British and Irish oil paintings by artists born before 1870 in public and institutional collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Gordon, Catherine M. (Catherine May), 1945-, Smith, Mary Peskett., Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. p. 378. ISBN 0300117302. OCLC 64097320.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ "The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: A Chronicle, 1769–2018 Index". chronicle250.com. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
  7. ^ "Past Members". RSW. 22 January 2018. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
  8. ^ Helland, Janice (October 1997). "Locality and Pleasure in Landscape: A Study of Three Nineteenth-Century Scottish Watercolourists". Rural History. 8 (2): 149–164. doi:10.1017/S0956793300001242. S2CID 162773735.
  9. ^ Helland, Janice. (1996). The studios of Frances and Margaret Macdonald. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. p. 183. ISBN 0719047838. OCLC 33439974.
  10. ^ Tanner, Ailsa (1 July 1990). "The Glasgow Society of Lady Artists". Women Artists Slide Library Journal. 35. The Women's Art Library.
  11. ^ Suffrage and the arts: visual culture, politics and enterprise. Garrett, Miranda,, Thomas, Zoë. London. 20 September 2018. ISBN 9781350011861. OCLC 982532870.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
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