Louise Jopling
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Louise Jane Jopling , née Goode, later Rowe, (born November 16, 1843 in Manchester , † November 19, 1933 in Chesham Bois ) was an English painter.
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Louise Goode was born in Manchester in 1843. At the age of seventeen she married Frank Romer, secretary to Baron Nathaniel Rothschild in Paris . Encouraged by the Baroness Rothschild, she began to study art in Paris. Among other things, she visited the studio of the artist and graphic artist Charles Joshua Chaplin from 1867 to 1868 and exhibited her first works in the Paris Salon . From 1870 to 1873 she was represented in the exhibitions of the Royal Academy .
Louise Romer initially struggled with prejudice based on gender. Among other things, her husband, who had since left her and the children, threatened to take possession of her pictures after the initial successes in the Paris Salon. But he died in 1872. Louise married Joseph Middleton Jopling in 1874, a watercolor painter and friend of leading artists of the time such as John Everett Millais and James McNeill Whistler . From then on she moved in the leading artistic circles in London.
Her career was also crowned with success. In 1876 she exhibited at the world exhibition in Philadelphia ( Five Sisters of York ) and in 1878 at the world exhibition in Paris ( The Modern Cinderella ). Important sponsors included a. the Rothschild family, for whom she painted several portraits, and aristocratic families such as Sir Coutts and Lady Lindsay, founders of the Grosvenor Gallery . In 1880 she joined the Society of Women Artists and in 1891 the Royal Society of Portrait Painters . In 1901 she was also the first woman to be inducted into the Royal Society of British Artists .
Joseph Jopling died in 1884. In 1887, Louise Jopling married the lawyer George William Rowe. In the same year she founded an art school for women. Even before that, she had advocated women's rights in art education, which at the time were still severely curtailed. She also supported the suffragette movement , for which she also drew posters and banners.
She also published a textbook on painting ( Hints for Amateurs ) and an autobiography ( Twenty Years of My Life ).
Web links
- Louise Jopling Research Project, University of Glasgow
- Louise Jopling on History of the Amersham Area
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| SURNAME | Jopling, Louise |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jopling, Louise Jane (full name); Goode, Louise Jane (maiden name); Rowe, Louise Jane; Romer, Louise Jane |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manchester |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 1933 |
| Place of death | Chesham Bois |