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Martha Darley Mutrie (26 August 1824 – 30 December 1885) was a British painter. Her paintings consisted mostly of fruit and flowers. She grew up in
Manchester Manchester () is a city and the metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It had an estimated population of in . Greater Manchester is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.92&nbs ...
, England, and studied at the
Manchester School of Design Manchester School of Art on Oxford Road in Manchester, England, was established in 1838 as the Manchester School of Design. It is the second-oldest art school in the United Kingdom after the Royal College of Art which was founded the year befo ...
. Mutrie's works were shown at the
Royal Academy of Arts The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House in Piccadilly London, England. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its ...
,
Royal Manchester Institution The Royal Manchester Institution (RMI) was an English learned society founded on 1 October 1823 at a public meeting held in the Exchange Room by Manchester merchants, local artists and others keen to dispel the image of Manchester as a city l ...
and other national and international exhibitions. Her works are among the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum The Russell-Cotes Museum (formally, the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum) is an art gallery and museum in Bournemouth, England. A Grade II* listed building originally known as East Cliff Hall, it is located on the top of the East Cliff, next ...
.


Personal life

Martha Mutrie was born in
Ardwick Ardwick is an area of Manchester, England, southeast of the city centre. The population at the 2011 census was 19,250. Historically in Lancashire, by the mid-nineteenth century Ardwick had grown from being a village into a pleasant and wealt ...
on 26 August 1824, and was the oldest daughter of Robert Mutrie, a cotton trader from Rothesay, Bute,
Scotland Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ...
. She had one younger sister, Annie Feray Mutrie, born on 6 March 1826 in Manchester. Her family soon settled in Manchester. Martha Mutrie moved to London in 1854, and died in
Kensington Kensington is an area of London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, around west of Central London. The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up by Kensingt ...
, England on 30 December 1885. Her sister, Annie died on 28 September 1893 in Brighton.


Education and career

Mutrie studied under
George Wallis George Wallis (8 June 1811 – 24 October 1891) was an English artist, art educator, and museum curator. He was the first Keeper of Fine Art Collection at South Kensington Museum (later the Victoria & Albert Museum) in London. Early years ...
at the
Manchester School of Design Manchester School of Art on Oxford Road in Manchester, England, was established in 1838 as the Manchester School of Design. It is the second-oldest art school in the United Kingdom after the Royal College of Art which was founded the year befo ...
between the years of 1844 to 1846. She continued her education at Wallis' private academy. Mutrie exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Manchester Institution, and other English and international exhibitions. ''Fruit'' and ''Spring Flowers'' were shown at the Royal Academy in 1853 and 1854, respectively.
John Ruskin John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was an English polymath a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as art, architecture, Critique of politic ...
appreciated her works, ''Primulas'' and ''Geraniums'', at the academy's 1856 exhibition and commented upon them in his "Notes on some of the Principal Pictures in the Royal Academy." Mutrie has a painting in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum.


See also

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* Mary Baker *
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* Rebecca Solomon *
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Isabelle de Steiger Isabelle de Steiger, née Lace (28 February 1836 – 1 January 1927), was an English painter, theosophist, occultist and writer. She became a member of several esoteric societies in London, and was a close friend and co-worker of Anna Kingsford ...
* Henrietta Ward


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mutrie, Martha Darley 1824 births 1885 deaths 19th-century English painters Painters from Manchester English women painters People from Ardwick Sibling artists 19th-century English women artists 19th-century British women painters