Augusta Mostyn

Lady Augusta Lloyd-Mostyn
Detail of a portrait of Augusta Mostyn by Herbert Sidney Percy (Mostyn Estates)
Born
Henrietta Augusta Nevill

(1830-06-18)18 June 1830
Birling, Kent
Died25 January 1912(1912-01-25) (aged 81)
Known forPhotography
SpouseThomas Lloyd-Mostyn
FatherWilliam Nevill, 4th Earl of Abergavenny
Family
Gloddaeth Hall, of the Mostyn family, 1935

Lady Henrietta Augusta Lloyd-Mostyn (née Nevill; 18 June 1830 – 25 January 1912) was an English philanthropist and photographer who contributed to the development of the Welsh town of Llandudno.

Life and work

Augusta Nevill was born at Birling Manor near Maidstone, Kent.[1] Her parents were William Nevill, 4th Earl of Abergavenny, and Caroline Leeke.[2] Her sisters, Lady Caroline Nevill and Lady Isabel Nevill, were also photographers.[3]

On 19 July 1855, Lady Augusta Nevill married Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn. They had two sons, Llewelyn Neville Vaughan Lloyd-Mostyn and Harry Richard Lloyd-Mostyn. They lived at Gloddaeth Hall.

Lady Augusta Mostyn commissioned All Saints Church, Deganwy from the architect John Douglas as a memorial to her parents.[4]

She commissioned the Mostyn Art Gallery in Llandudno, the precursor of the current Mostyn gallery, as a headquarters for the Gwynedd Ladies' Arts Society, a society that was set up by a 'Miss Clearance Whaite' (daughter of the president of Royal Cambrian Academy of Art), Lady Mostyn donated £10.10s (which was worth ~£1500 after inflation in 2019), thus making her the founder.[5] This is thought to have been the first art gallery in the world dedicated to exhibiting work by women.[6][7]

Group exhibitions

Tree and Rock, c. 1850. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Collections

Mostyn's work is held in the following permanent collections:

References

  1. ^ "Lady Augusta Mostyn—a heroine of Llandudno", North Wales Daily Post, 29 April 2010, retrieved 15 March 2015
  2. ^ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999. volume 1, page 19
  3. ^ "Lady Henrietta Augusta Mostyn - Artist - Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Church of All Saints". Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  5. ^ Cheshire Observer (Chester, Cheshire, England) 29 Dec 1894, Sat - Page 5
  6. ^ "A world first—and a warning". Mostyn. Archived from the original on 30 January 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  7. ^ "Escape route: Weekends by the British seaside". The Independent. 9 April 2010. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  8. ^ a b Roberts, Kimberly (25 March 2021). "5 Photos by Women in the DAM Collection - Denver Art Museum". www.denverartmuseum.org. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  9. ^ "Lady Augusta Mostyn (Welsh, 1830 - 1912) (Getty Museum)". The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  10. ^ "Henrietta Augusta Mostyn - LACMA Collections". Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  11. ^ "Augusta Mostyn". National Gallery of Canada. 15 January 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
  12. ^ "Researching female photographers in our archives". National Science and Media Museum blog. 12 August 2013. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  13. ^ "Works – Lady Henrietta Augusta Mostyn – Artists/Makers – The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art". art.nelson-atkins.org. Retrieved 6 March 2022.