Ethel Wright (painter)

Ethel Wright
Born 1866
London
Died 1939
Nationality United Kingdom
Occupation painter
Known for portraiture

Ethel Wright (1866 – 1939) was a British painter. She has paintings in UK national collections.

Life

Christabel Pankhurst by Wright

Wright was born in London and there is a portrait of her by Hayman Seleg Mendelssohn. She achieved a profile as a painter in the 1890s identified in the modernist Rhythm Group.[1] She achieved some success as a painter but she was identified as a great woman artist. She became a supporter of the suffragettes.[2]

A portrait she made of Christabel Pankhurst was bought by the suffragette Una Duval after it was exhibited by the Women's Social and Political Union's art exhibition in 1909.[2] The Women's Exhibition hosted by the Women's Social and Political Union and funded by Clara Mordan was held at the Prince's Ice Rink in Knightsbridge in May 1909.[3][4] It was donated by her descendant to the National Portrait Gallery in 2011.[1] It was exhibited in 2018 when it was noted that the gallery had previously only had pictures of suffragettes taken by the police as suspicious characters.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Dame Christabel Pankhurst - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
  2. 1 2 3 Brown, Mark (2014-07-24). "Portrait of an angry lady: suffragette Christabel Pankhurst goes on display". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
  3. ↑ "Clara Mordan". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
  4. ↑ [Sheila Stowell, A Stage of their own: Feminist playwrights of the suffrage era (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992), p. 53]
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