Allerley Glossop

Allerley Glossop (1870–1955) was a South African artist known particularly for her landscape and pastoral scenes. Glossop was born Alice Glossop into a middle-class family in Twickenham, in West London, the daughter of George Glossop, the vicar of Twickenham, and his wife Eliza. Glossop studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art in London under Charles Holroyd and modelling under George Frampton, and studied under William Mouat Loudan at the Westminster School of Art. She also worked under Arthur Elsley and Solomon Solomon, and taught at their short-lived art school, the Sphinx Studio, until it closed in 1900. Quotes About Her "Jill of all trades, and master of most of them... who, if she was busy, would slip a delicately beaded white chiffon dinner dress over her riding trousers and high leather boots, to arrive at a dinner party with a riding crop instead of a bag." "self-possessed by nature and training", who "loved freedom... a slim intrepid woman, with her wide human interests, and zest for work... poised squarely in the path of life, like a bright eagle ready to fly the wind against any wrong done to the young, weak or innocent" "an English lady who has long resided in the colony and has mingled farming with painting" "emphatically one of our national artists", with "her quaint brush and charmingly original way of looking at things" "Allerley Glossop". South African History Online, Cape Town. 2011. Retrieved 26 June 2016. External Links Category:Dead people Category:Women from South Africa Category:Sculptors Category:Women artists