Alice Mary Hobson (1860 – 1954) was an English landscape painter. Alice Mary Hobson - Room at Leicester in which Shakespeare is said to have Acted before Queen Elizabeth

Alice Mary Hobson - Room at Leicester in which Shakespeare is said to have Acted before Queen Elizabeth

She became a watercolourist and member of the Society of Painters in Watercolours and the

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in London from 1879. Her 1903 watercolour sketch of Leicester Guildhall called ''Room at Leicester in which Shakespeare is said to have Acted before Queen Elizabeth'' was included in the book '' Women Painters of the World''. One of her works, "The Old Cock Pit," is held by the

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and had been commissioned for the Library in Queen Mary's Dolls House.

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1860 births 1954 deaths British women painters 19th-century British women artists {{UK-painter-19thC-stub