Anna Hornby, (6 April 1914–1996) was an English painter, calligrapher and member of the New English Art Club.Who's Who in Art (Twenty-Second Edition, Art Trade Press 1986)

Life and work

Anna Hornby was educated at the independent

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, Gloucestershire. She went on to study art in

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with landscape and flower painter Aubrey Waterfield in 1934, and later that year enrolled at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London where she studied under

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, graduating in 1940. In 1952 Hornby was appointed Honorary Secretary of the Society for Italic Handwriting, a post she held until 1962. Through her interest in calligraphy and her association with the Society, Hornby became acquainted with Alfred John Fairbank, whose portrait she painted (exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1961). Fairbank was a founding member of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators in 1921, and was also involved in the foundation of the Society for Italic Handwriting in 1952. Hornby was also a member of the

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and was elected member of the New English Art Club in 1971. She exhibited widely with 13 pictures at the Royal Academy. In addition she exhibited with the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, The Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Royal Society of British Artists. Anna Hornby died in 1996, bequeathing paintings by Peter Greenham and Francis Ernest Jackson to the Ashmolean Museum of Art, Oxford. Many of her papers and letters, including correspondence with Alfred John Fairbank are held in the archives of the

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and the National Art Library, London.National Art Library
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Exhibitions

Pictures exhibited at the Royal Academy, London *1949 - Chantmarle *1959 - Cecily *1960 - Farm near Urbino *1960 - Mary *1961 - Evening Tuscany *1961 - Sally *1961 - Alfred Fairbank Esq *1963 - Le Buis: Morning *1967 - Washing Line *1968 - Crocuses *1968 - Italian Haystacks *1969 - College Dustbins *1970 - Certaldo in the Rain

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hornby, Anna 1914 births 1996 deaths 20th-century English painters 20th-century English women artists Alumni of the Byam Shaw School of Art English calligraphers English women painters People educated at Westonbirt School Women calligraphers