Louisa Starr, later Louisa Canziani (1845–25 May 1909), was a British painter.
Biography
Starr was born in
London
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and lived on
Russell Square
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when she became a copyist at the
British Museum
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.
[Louisa Starr]
in English Female Artists by Ellen Creathorne Clayton
Ellen Creathorne Clayton, Mrs Needham; 15 February 1834 – 19 July 1900), born Eleanor Creathorne Clayton, was an author and artist.
Biography
Eleanor Creathorne Clayton was born in Dublin on 15 February 1834 but moved to London with her fathe ...
, 1876 Studying at the
Royal Academy, she showed her first work there in 1866 and by 1876 had showed 17 paintings.
[ She won a gold medal at the Royal Academy for history painting in 1867.] She was the first woman to do so and was followed by Jessie Macgregor's gold medal in 1871, but the next woman to do so was not until 1909.
She married Enrico Canziani and thereafter signed her works with her married name. Her daughter Estella Canziani
Estella Louisa Michaela Canziani (12 January 1887 – 23 August 1964) was a British portrait and landscape painter, an interior decorator and a travel writer and folklorist.
Life and works
Born in London, Estella Canziani was the daughter of ...
also became an artist.
She exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts
The Palace of Fine Arts is a monumental structure located in the Marina District of San Francisco, California, originally constructed for the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition to exhibit works of art. Completely rebuilt from 1964 to ...
at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition (also known as the Chicago World's Fair) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. The centerpiece of the Fair, hel ...
in Chicago, Illinois.
Her painting ''Sintram and his mother'' was included in the 1905 book ''Women Painters of the World
''Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413–1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day'', assembled and edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow, lists an overview of prominent women painters up to 1905, the year of publication.
Th ...
''.
Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day
', by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905
Starr died in London
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in 25 May 1909 and was buried in the Starr family grave (plot no.19975) on the western side of Highgate Cemetery
Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England. There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West and East Cemeteries. Highgate Cemetery is notable both for some of the people buried there as ...
near the grave of Elizabeth Siddal
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall (25 July 1829 – 11 February 1862), better known as Elizabeth Siddal, was an English artist, poet, and artists' model. Significant collections of her artworks can be found at Wightwick Manor and the Ashmolean. Sidd ...
.
Gallery
File:Cold Spring - The Alien - Louisa Starr - ABDAG004514.jpg, ''Cold Spring - The Alien'', 1906, Aberdeen Art Gallery
Aberdeen Art Gallery is the main visual arts exhibition space in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. It was founded in 1884 in a building designed by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie, with a sculpture court added in 1905. In 1900, it received the art ...
File:Louisa Starr Canziani - Sintram and his mother.jpg, ''Sintram and his Mother'', from a story by De la Motte Fouqué
File:Grave of Louisa Starr in Highgate Cemetery.jpg, Grave of Louisa Starr in Highgate Cemetery
Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in north London, England. There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West and East Cemeteries. Highgate Cemetery is notable both for some of the people buried there as ...
References
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Louisa Starr Canziani
on artnet
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1845 births
1909 deaths
Burials at Highgate Cemetery
19th-century British painters
19th-century British women artists
Artists from London
British women painters
British women writers
19th-century women writers