Bertha Newcombe

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Elizabeth Garrett and Emily Davies presented the first petition for women to vote to John Stuart Mill in 1860 . (Newcombe's picture from 1910)
Artists' Suffrage League (1910)
Water lilies
George Bernard Shaw (1892)
"Shaw - full length, with his rea-gold hair an laughing blue eyes and his mouth slight open ..., a powerful picture in which the love of the woman had given genius to the artist ,,," , Beatrice Webb, Diary , March 9, 1897

Bertha Newcombe (born 1857 in Lower Clapton, London Borough of Hackney ; died 1947 in Petersfield (Hampshire) ) was a British painter and suffragette .

Life

Bertha Newcombe was a daughter of the teacher, amateur painter and photographer Samuel Prout Newcombe and Hannah Prout Newcombe. Parents campaigned for women's suffrage in the 1890s . The family was probably related to the painters John Skinner Prout and Samuel Prout , Bertha Newcombe bequeathed five pictures by Samuel Prout to the Southampton Art Gallery .

Bertha Newcombe attended the Slade School of Fine Art in 1876 , where she was one of the first women to be admitted. Since 1888 she was a member of the New English Art Club . Starting in 1881, she was repeatedly mentioned by The Magazine of Art and also at an exhibition in 1882 by the Fortnightly Review . Seven pictures of her have been shown at exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts over the years . Newcombe illustrated a variety of fiction books. In 1894 she attended the Académie Colarossi in Paris . She corresponded with the American painter James McNeill Whistler and after his death in 1903 received an honorary position as secretary of the Whistler Memorial Fund.

Newcombe was active in the women's organizations Society of Women Artists , Society of Lady Artists and in the Artists' Suffrage League . In the early 1890s she became a member of the Fabian Society , in which George Bernard Shaw played a leading role. In 1892 Shaw sat in Newcombe's studio for a portrait, which resulted in a one-sided love affair. In the spring of 1895 she (the "Fabian artist") was next to Beatrice Webb, the only woman in a company from the Webbs, Herbert Samuel , Charles P. Trevelyan , Shaw and two other men who made a short vacation in Beachy Head . When Shaw chose the very wealthy Charlotte Payne-Townshend over her in 1897 and married her, it was up to Beatrice Webb to restore her illusory friend.

In the women's rights movement, Newcombe belonged to the moderate wing of the London Society for Women's Suffrage, which separated itself from the violent actions of the Women's Social and Political Union . Newcombe later became involved in women's social issues and bequeathed her fortune to a residential foundation for women.

Book illustrations (selection)

  • Orme Agnus: Sarah Tuldon: a woman who had her way . Illustrations Bertha Newcombe. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1904
  • Jane Barlow : Maureen's fairing, and other stories . Illustrations Bertha Newcombe. London: JM Dent, 1895
  • Jane Barlow : Mrs. Martin's company and other stories . Illustrations Bertha Newcombe. London: JM Dent, 1896
  • Rosa Nouchette Carey : My Lady Frivolous . Illustrations Bertha Newcombe. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1899
  • George Eliot : The Mill on the Floss . Illustrations Bertha Newcombe. London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1925
  • Evelyn Everett-Green : The master of Marshlands . Illustrations Bertha Newcombe. London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1906
  • Henry Stephens Salt : Richard Jefferies: a study . Illustrations Bertha Newcombe. London: Swan Sunshine & Co., 1894
  • Hesba Stretton : Lost Gip . Illustrations Bertha Newcombe and HJA Miles
  • Oswald Wildridge: Margery Manesty . Illustrations Bertha Newcombe. London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1907

literature

  • Explorations in Shaw and His Women - reenactment of Shaw's affairs with women throughout his lifetime, including courtship with Charlotte and his relationship with his mother and how these relationships are subsequently reflected in his plays . Videotape, ca.1980
  • Rodelle Weintraub: Not Really a Philanderer . In: Robert A. Gaines (Ed.): Bernard Shaw's marriages and misalliances . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp. 75-88
  • Wendy Parkins: Jane Morris: the burden of history Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-7486-4127-7

Web links

Commons : Bertha Newcombe  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Samuel Prout Newcombe at Professional Photographers in Hastings. Charles Thomas Newcombe of London and Hastings
  2. ^ A b Elizabeth Crawford: Newcombe, Bertha , in: The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866–1928 . Pp. 997-999
  3. ↑ The original of the Platform Spellbinder portrait was considered lost after the Second World War. It has been published in various works, such as the frontispiece to Bernard Shaw: Platform and pulpit . Edited by Dan H. Laurence. London: Hart-Davis, 1962. The picture was found again in 2012: 'Lost' George Bernard Shaw painting given to Labor Party , BBC, 22 June 2012
  4. ↑ Norman Mackenzie (Ed.): The diary of Beatrice Webb. 2. 1892-1905: "all the good things of life" . London: Virago, 1983, ISBN 0-674-20288-0 , pp. 72f. Entry April 9, 1895
  5. ↑ Norman Mackenzie (Ed.): The diary of Beatrice Webb. 2. 1892-1905: "all the good things of life" . London: Virago, 1983, ISBN 0-674-20288-0 , pp. 110f. Entry March 9, 1897
personal data
SURNAME Newcombe, Bertha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British painter and suffragette
DATE OF BIRTH 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Lower Clapton, London Borough of Hackney
DATE OF DEATH 1947
Place of death Petersfield (Hampshire)