Minnie Walters Anson (20 February 1875 – 23 March 1959) was a British portrait painter (in formal and informal styles) and created miniatures, as well as technical botanical illustrations, during the 1920s onwards.

Education and life

Her art education was at

Lambeth School of Art Founded in 1854 as the Lambeth School of Art, the City and Guilds of London Art School is a small specialist art college located in central London, England. Originally founded as a government art school, it is now an independent, not-for-profit ...

, London where she won awards. She lived at 8 Lewin Road and also 22 Kempshot Road, London. She married fellow artist, photographer, Chris Adams who had been commissioned to make paintings for Queen Mary's Doll's House. She died on 25 March 1959.

Selected works

One of her miniatures (''Walter Adams)'' is held in the archive of the

Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers The Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers, more commonly known as the Royal Miniature Society (RMS), is an art society founded in 1895 dedicated to upholding and continuing the tradition of miniature painting and sculpture, ...

. Anson's formal portrait of ''King George V'' and more relaxed subjects ''Dutch Bulb Merchant, A Breton Pilot'' and the semi-formal family portrait of an actress mother and child: ''Lady Neville Pearson (

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) and Sally'' are in the

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. In 2009, her multi-media portrait of '' Princess Elizabeth'' as a small child in 1927, was sold at auction, along with a 1925 two-view portrait of a young male actor in costume, along with thirteen detailed botanical studies of orchid flowers. Anson was the illustrator of 300 plates in the 1934 book '''Colour in The Garden by M.E. Stebbing''.'' She worked on similar books or collections with

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and George F Tinley. And she painted postcard images, such as of Priory Mansions Hotel, Bournemouth. Anson also painted Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the Queen Mother) as a young woman in 1937.

Collections

Anson's art is sold in private auctions but also examples of her work are held in 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 ...

, Bournemout

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, Londo

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:walters anson, millie 1875 births 1959 deaths Miniature painting British botanical illustrators British portrait artists British women artists Painters from London