CHELSEA ART SOCIETY
Chelsea Art Society was founded in 1910 and is the oldest and sole survivor of the many art groups that blossomed in the artistic area of London around the beginning of the 20th century. In the mid-19th Century, Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (1828–1882) and Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) began the trend of settling in Chelsea followed by James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942), Augustus Edwin John 1840-1916 (1878-1961) and John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). Amongst the group was Sir James Dromgole Linton (1840-1916), a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy and an Honorary member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW) and Linton chose Chelsea as the place to found an art group with the aim of exhibiting annually. The Society flourished surviving the disruption of two World Wars being revived in 1946 by Alfred Egerton Cooper (1883-1974). Suffolk artists who exhibited at the Chelsea Art Society include Maria Balfour, Roy Connelly, Edgar Downs, Penny German, Caroline Greene, Hugo Grenville and Jane Hamilton.
Website: https://chelseaartsociety.org.uk