Jane Younger

Jane Younger
Born	1863 Glasgow, Scotland
Died	1955 (aged 91–92) Crawford, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Glasgow School of Art École des Beaux-Arts
Known for	Painting, embroidery

Jane Younger (1863–1955) was a Scottish artist known for her watercolour paintings and embroidery work.

Biography

Younger was born in Glasgow into a prosperous family involved in the cotton trade.[1] She studied under Jessie Newbery at the Glasgow School of Art and at the school of animal painting at Craigmill run by Joseph Donovan Adam.[2][3] She also studied in Paris in the studio of Gustave Courtois and at the École des Beaux-Arts.[4] While still a student, she joined the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists.[3]

Younger's sister Anna, married the publisher Walter Blackie of the publishing company Blackie and Son in 1889.[4] When Blackie commissioned Charles Rennie Mackintosh to design Hill House in Helensburgh, Younger was asked to design several pieces for the house, including bedspreads and she also painted a watercolour of the house's garden as part of Mackintosh's interior design for the property.[1] For Blackie and Son, Younger designed bookplates for their specialist Prize Books.[1] In 1902 she visited Switzerland and exhibited work at the Turin Exhibition.[1]

Between 1906 and 1922, Younger shared a studio on West George Street in Glasgow with Annie French and Bessie Young.[4][5] She later settled in Edinburgh but also painted on Arran and in France.[3][4] Younger often painted in watercolours and developed a colourful and bold technique, comparable to pointillism in effect.[4] She exhibited with the Royal Scottish Academy, the Society of Women Artists, the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and the Royal Scottish Watercolour Society.[3] the Cooling Galleries and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool also held exhibitions.[3] She died at Crawford, South Lanarkshire and a gravestone designed by her marks the site of the Younger family tomb in the Glasgow Necropolis.[1]

References

1. Anne Ellis (1990). "Jane Younger". In Jude Burkhauser (ed.). Glasgow Girls Women in Art and Design 1880–1920. Edinburgh: Canongate Books. pp. 174–175. ISBN 184195151X. OCLC 26806790 – via Internet Archive.
2. McIntosh-Prentice, Alison (2 March 2021). "Jane Younger and art". National Trust for Scotland. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
3. David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945. Vol. 2, M to Z. Bristol: Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0-953260-95-X. OCLC 77011785.
4. Paul Harris & Julian Halsby (1990). The Dictionary of Scottish Painters: 1600 to the Present. Edinburgh: Canongate Books. ISBN 1-84195-150-1. OCLC 642288375.
5. Sara Gray (2009). The Dictionary of British Women Artists. Cambridge: The Lutterworth Press. ISBN 97807-18830847. JSTOR j.ctt1cgdwwm. OCLC 608209762.