KIRKPATRICK, Ida Marion

1866 - 1950

Ida Marion Kirkpatrick was born at her maternal grandmother's home at St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, on 8 June 1866 and baptised on 1 August 1866, eldest daughter of Capt Thomas Sutton Kirkpatrick (1 December 1833-18 June 1895), of Coolmine, Dublin, a prison governor, who had served in the Indian Army, and his wife Mary Ann Rosa née Marriott (22 August 1844-26 July 1939) who married at St John's, Hyde Park Square, London on 13 December 1864. Due to an outbreak of cholera, her mother had been sent back to the UK from India during her pregnancy. On leaving the Army, her father entered the Government Prison Service as a Deputy Governor at Clerkenwell, London. Ida studied at the Royal Female School of Art wining both the Brightwen Scholarship of £10 and the Gilchrist Scholarship of £10 in 1887 and the Queen's Scholarship of £60 in 1900 and continued her studies at Birkbeck School of Art and briefly at the Académie Julian in Paris and in Lausanne, Switzerland. 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. Her father retired in 1892, to their house The Gables at Harrow-on-the-Hill but, but together with her sister Ethel Alice Kirkpatrick, the two sisters travelled widely and were regular visitors to St Ives, Cornwall and to Walberswick, Suffolk between 1894-1921 with particularly extended stays 1907-1913. The sisters' exhibited at the Royal Academy and at Graves Gallery, 6 Pall Mall, London with Ida showing amongst others 'The Beach at St Ives' and 'Walberswick'. Their father 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 Ida, and sister Ethel, were still living at The Gables, Grove Hill, Harrow. Ida's works were much reproduced as picture postcards from 1901 and she exhibited frequently at the Alpine Club Gallery and with the Society of Women Artists and was still exhibiting at Harrow Art Gallery as late as 1948. Ida Marion Kirkpatrick died at The Gables, Harrow on 9 May 1950, she was unmarried. She signed her works 'I. Kirkpatrick'.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from The Gables, Harrow
1895 1051 A Study - watercolour
1904 1044 Girl's Head - watercolour
1909 908 A Portrait Study - watercolour
1914 1378 Moonlight on an Old Inn - watercolour
1920 819 A Sunny Morning - watercolour
1924 809 Summer Colour - watercolour

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Works by This Artist