Louisa Starr, later Louisa Canziani (1845 – 25 May 1909) was a British painter.[1]
Louisa Starr Canziani | |
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 Louisa Starr c. 1900 | |
| Born | Louisa Starr 1845 London, United Kingdom |
| Died | 25 May 1909 (aged 63–64) 25 May 1909 London, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | Painting |
| Spouse | Enrico Canziani |
Biography
editStarr was born in London in 1845. Her parents were Anna (born ) Cowan and Henry Starr. They were cousins of Italian heritage but they had been born in London and America respectively.[2] They lived on Russell Square and she became a copyist at the British Museum.[3] Studying at the Royal Academy Schools, she showed her first work there in 1866 and by 1876 had showed 17 paintings.[3] She won a gold medal at the Royal Academy for history painting in December 1867.[1] 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.[4]
She married the Italian civil engineer Enrico Canziani (1848–1931) and thereafter signed her works with her married name. Her daughter Estella Canziani also became an artist.[5][2]
She exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[6]
Her painting Sintram and his mother was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[7]
Starr died in London in 25 May 1909[2] and was buried in the Starr family grave (plot no.19975) on the western side of Highgate Cemetery near the grave of Elizabeth Siddal.[citation needed]
Gallery
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Cold Spring - The Alien (1906; Aberdeen Art Gallery) -
Sintram and his Mother, from a story by De la Motte Fouqué -
Grave of Louisa Starr in Highgate Cemetery
References
edit- ^ a b Brian Stewart & Mervyn Cutten (1997). The Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-173-2.
- ^ a b c Dakers, Caroline (9 May 2024), "Starr [married name Canziani], Louisa [known as Louisa Starr Canziani] (1845–1909), artist", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.90000382465, ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8, retrieved 6 November 2024
- ^ a b Louisa Starr in English Female Artists by Ellen Creathorne Clayton, 1876
- ^ Louisa Starr and Jessie Macgregor and their gold medals in The Dictionary of British Women Artists, by Sara Gray, 2009
- ^ "Louisa Starr Canziani". www.britishmuseum.org. The British Museum. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
- ^ Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 26 July 2018.
- ^ 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
External links
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Media related to Louisa Starr at Wikimedia Commons- 29 artworks by or after Louisa Starr Canziani at the Art UK site
- Louisa Starr Canziani on artnet
