Jessie Algie

Jessie Algie
Born1859
Died1927 (aged 67–68)
NationalityBritish
Known forWatercolour painting

Jessie Algie (1859–1927) was a Scottish painter, known mainly for her oil and watercolour paintings of flowers.[1]

Biography

Algie studied at the Glasgow School of Art before moving to Stirling[2] where she became associated with both the Cambuskenneth and Craigmill circles of artists.[3][4] Her usual subjects were flowers.[5] She had two paintings exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1899 and subsequently exhibited at the Royal Academy in London.[3][6] In 1908, she had a joint exhibition at the Baille Gallery in London alongside Anne Muir, Jessie M. King and Louise Ellen Perman.[3][4] During her career, as well as the Royal Scottish Academy,[7] Algie also exhibited with the Aberdeen Artists Society, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and at the Glasgow Institute of Fine Art.[3][1] She won a silver medal for her painting of delphiniums in 1910.[8]

In her later life, Algie lived at Kirn in Argyll.[9] She died in 1927, in her sixties.[10] The Glasgow Art Gallery holds examples of her work while the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool has her painting Pink and Sunflowers.[6][9]

References

  1. ^ a b Josephine Walpole (2006). A History and Dictionary of British Flower Painters 1650-1950. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-504-5.
  2. ^ Helland, Janice (11 June 2019). Professional Women Painters in Nineteenth-Century Scotland: Commitment, Friendship, Pleasure. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-75725-6.
  3. ^ a b c d Peter J.M. McEwan (1994). The Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-134-1.
  4. ^ a b Paul Harris & Julian Halsby (1990). The Dictionary of Scottish Painters 1600 to the Present. Canongate. ISBN 1-84195-150-1.
  5. ^ Aitken, Mina (May 1904). "What Women Are Doing in Scotland". Womanhood. 12 (66): 344.
  6. ^ a b Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 1 A-Bedeschini. Editions Grund, Paris. 2006. ISBN 2-7000-3070-2.
  7. ^ "The Royal Academy; Landscapes and Flowers". The Gardeners' Chronicle (1272): 290. 13 May 1911.
  8. ^ "Art Section". Women's Agricultural and Horticultural International Union Leaflet: 5. 15 August 1910.
  9. ^ a b Grant M. Waters (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950. Eastbourne Fine Art.
  10. ^ Wright, Christopher; Gordon, Catherine May (1 January 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. Yale University Press. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-300-11730-1.
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