Ruth Hollingsworth (29 August 1880 – 14 March 1945) was a British artist known for her landscapes, figure and flower paintings.

Biography

Hollingsworth was born in

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in London and was the fourth of five daughters born to Alexander Hollingsworth, a newspaper proprietor, and his wife Charlotte Ellen née Allen. Hollingsworth attended the

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and the London School of Art. She lived in London and later at Dedham in

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and painted landscapes in

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and in Italy. Hollingsworth exhibited at the

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in London, with the

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, with the

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and elsewhere. In the 1930s she was a regular exhibitor with the Ipswich Art Club. In 1917 she married the artist Richard Sydney Hellaby and sometimes signed her works as ''Ruth Hellaby''. A number of museums in Britain hold examples of her work and the collection of the

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includes two of her paintings, including a portrait of a young women, ''Odette''.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hollingsworth, Ruth 1880 births 1945 deaths 20th-century English artists 20th-century English women artists Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art English women painters Painters from London People from Clapham