Esther Harriet Borough Johnson née George (1866–1958) was an English painter.

Personal life

Esther Harriet George was born on 2 April 1866 at

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, Shifnal, Shropshire. Her father was a clergyman, a curate at the time of her birth and later vicar of Pentney, Norfolk. She had a twin sister Lydia. She married the artist Ernest Borough Johnson (1866–1949) in 1903, and thereafter painted under the name Esther Borough Johnson. She died on 28 October 1958, aged 92, in a nursing home in Worcester Park, Surrey.

Painting career

Johnson studied at

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and at Hubert von Herkomer's School of Art in Bushey. During her career she exhibited paintings at the

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in London, with the

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, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and with the Women's International Art Club. Her works are held in collections including Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries, Bushey Museum and Art Gallery and The Box, Plymouth. She wrote ''The technique of flower painting in oil, water-colour, and pastel'', published by Pitman (1931), and the introduction to a 1907 ''Drawings of Michael Angelo'' published by Newnes.

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Esther George, AKA Mrs Borough Johnson
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