Bertha Newcombe

Bertha Newcombe
Born 1857 (1857)
Clapton, Middlesex
Died 1947 (aged 89–90)
Nationality British
Education Slade School of Fine Art
Known for Painting

Bertha Newcombe (1857–1947) was an artist and a suffragette.[1]

Artistic career

First women's suffrage petition hidden under an apple stall by Bertha Newcombe
First women's suffrage petition hidden under an apple stall by Bertha Newcombe

She attended the Slade School of Fine Art. She worked in oils.[2]

Bertha_Newcombe 1894 sketch at the Colarossi atelier

In 1894 she was in Paris studying at the Académie Colarossi where she was able to sketch life models.

Newcombe regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, the Society of Women Artists, the Fine Art Society, the Dudley Gallery, the London Salon, the New English Art Club, and the Society of British Artists.[3]

She was a girlfriend of George Bernard Shaw and an active member of the Artists' Suffrage League.[4]

List of works

Notes

  1. ↑ "Bertha Newcombe – People – Southwark Heritage". heritage.southwark.gov.uk. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
  2. ↑ "Bertha Newcombe". Southwark Heritage.
  3. ↑ "Bertha Newcombe". The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler. University of Glasgow. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "Bertha Newcombe – People – Southwark Heritage". heritage.southwark.gov.uk. Retrieved 2018-03-20.

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