Anna Lownes (December 19, 1842 – January 4, 1910), (active 1884–1905) was an American painter of still lifes.
She was born in Delaware County, Pennsylvania to Phineas Lownes and Emily Lewis, a niece of manufacturer and philanthropist
John Price Crozer
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. Lownes studied at the
Philadelphia School of Design for Women
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and at the
Académie Delécluse
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in Paris.
She was a pupil of
Milne Ramsey
Milne Ramsey was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1847 and died March 16, 1915, in Philadelphia was an American artist who painted still lifes, landscapes and nautical scenes. Ramsey studied at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and under ...
. She exhibited work at the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
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; from 1885 to 1887 catalogs gave her address as
Media
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, Pennsylvania, but in later years she was said to have moved to 1708 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
Lownes
exhibited her work at the
Palace of Fine Arts
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and
The Woman's Building at the 1893
World's Columbian Exposition
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in Chicago, Illinois.
A ''Study of Apples'' dated to before 1890 was included in the inaugural exhibition of the
National Museum of Women in the Arts
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, ''American Women Artists 1830-1930'', in 1987.
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19th-century American painters
19th-century American women artists
20th-century American painters
20th-century American women artists
American women painters
American still life painters
People from Media, Pennsylvania
Artists from Philadelphia
Painters from Pennsylvania
Philadelphia School of Design for Women alumni
Académie Delécluse alumni
1842 births
1910 deaths