Elizabeth Cameron Mawson

Elizabeth Cameron Mawson (1849–1939) was an English painter.

Not to be confused with Elizabeth Mawson.
Furness Abbey, Cumbria (1877)
Holy Street Mill (n.d.)

Life

Elizabeth Cameron Mawson was born in 1849 at Gateshead, the daughter of businessman (later Sheriff of Newcastle) John Mawson. She was educated at Bedford College, London.[1]

She took up art as a hobby, and was effectively self-taught, yet her works commanded reasonable fees.[1]

She spent all her life in Gateshead and died there, unmarried, in 1939.[1]

Works

In 1878, some of her work appeared in two local exhibitions, at the Central Exchange Art Gallery and the Arts Association, Newcastle. She produced landscapes, flowers, portraits, and genre studies, in oils and watercolours. By the 1880s she was exhibiting further afield, at the Royal Scottish Academy (1883), the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-Colour, and the Society of Women Artists (1888–90). She also exhibited at the Royal Academy (1889–91) and the Royal Society of British Artists (1877–86). She continued to exhibit locally, occasionally sending works to the Bewick Club, Newcastle.[1]

Her exhibited works included:

  • Expectancy,
  • An Illustrious Ancestor,
  • A Yorkshire Lane,
  • Primroses.[1]

References

Citations
  1. Gray 2009, p. 182.

Bibliography
  • Gray, Sara (2009). "Mawson, Elizabeth Cameron". In The Dictionary of British Women Artists. The Lutterworth Press. ISBN 97807 18830847.
  • Waters, Grant M. (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900–1950. Eastbourne Fine Art. ISBN 9780904722376.
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