KIRKPATRICK, Ethel Alice

1869 - 1966

Ethel Alice Kirkpatrick was born at Cold Bath Fields Prison, Clerkenwell, London on 30 November 1869, where her father, who had previously been in army in India, was the resident prison governor, second daughter of Thomas Sutton Kirkpatrick (1 December 1833-18 June 1895) of Coolmine, Dublin, and his wife Mary Ann Rosa Marriott (22 August 1844-26 July 1939), youngest daughter of Frederick Marriott, who married at St John's, Hyde Park Square, London on 13 December 1864. Ethel was the younger sister of Ida Marion Kirkpatrick who attracted Ethel into art. Ethel studied at West London School of Art and South Kensington School of Art, now the Royal College of Art and for a brief time at Académie Julian in Paris, she also attended London's Central School of Arts and Crafts in 1899, where she studied enamelling and woodcut. From 1878 the family lived in Exeter, Devon, where their father was the Governor of Exeter Prison and was later governor of Newgate Prison in London to be followed by the same position at Wormwood Scrubs before retiring in 1892, to their house, The Gables at Harrow-on-the-Hill. The two sisters travelled widely and were regular visitors at St Ives, Cornwall in the 1890s and at Walberswick, Suffolk between 1896-1921 with particularly extended stays 1907-1913. Their father had died on 18 June 1895 and a large studio was built at the rear of The Gables for the sisters and where they continued to live and in 1939 Ethel, and unmarried sister Ida, were living at The Gables, Grove Hill, Harrow. Ethel produced paintings and woodcut work in colour, exhibiting at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions twelve times 1895-1941, in all exhibiting some sixteen paintings. She often exhibited with her sister Ida including at Graves Gallery, 6 Pall Mall, London in 1899; Beaux Arts Gallery; Walker's Gallery, London also at the Alpine Club Gallery and with the Society of Women Artists; the Colour Woodcut Society; Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and elsewhere. Ethel Alice Kirkpatrick was of Grove Hill Cottage, Grove Hill, Harrow when she died at Harrow Hospital on 28 December 1966, aged 97, she was unmarried. She signed her works 'Ethel Kirkpatrick'.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from The Gables, Harrow
1895 273 Moonrise
1896 565 Phyllis
         1549 Day Dreams - drawing
1897 1672 May - drawing
1902 755 Venitian Beads
1904 687 Against the Red Curtain
1910 627 Summer on the South Coast
1911 478 Twilight at Dordrecht
         585 Barges coming down from Rotterdam
1912 138 Near Lands End
1914 435 The Harbour
1916 13 The Rainbow
         984 Okehampton
1922 808 Boat Building at Wrexham
         820 Marigolds
1941 635 Buttercups

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Works by This Artist