WOMAN ARTIST AT 87.

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18600, 1 April 1932, Page 5

WOMAN ARTIST AT 87.

long hours in her studio. In a small studio in a cul-de-sac off the Fulham Road, London, lives one or England’s foremost women pamt-

erS She is Mrs Annie Louisa Swynnerton, who. at 81. has Just had hvo P»|„res accepted tor th» Spring BMU“°d n S?.. m* ?o be elected .» Aae.ciatc nf the Roval Academy. Hei piciuits now hang in galleries, in all parts of th Mr’John Tweed, the famous sculptor who works in a neighbouring Mrs Swynner ton is 87 she paints for long hours dailj in her studio and still sends pictures to exhibitions 1 hold that she is the fiesi living woman painter in England. At present she is at her bungalow on Hayling Island, Hampshire, painting by Mrs Swynnerton was born at Hulme, Manchester, in 1845, and began her training at the Manchester School of Art. When she was 28 she went to Rome and studied for . two years, and afterwards studied in Paris. Fame came to her late in life, and she was 77 when she was elected an A.R.A.