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(12 May 1828–9 April 1882) and Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775–19 December 1851) began the trend of settling in Chelsea followed by Augustus Edwin John (4 January 1878–31 October 1961); John Singer Sargent (12 January 1856–14 April 1925); Walter Richard Sickert (31 May 1860–22 January 1942) and James Abbott McNeill Whistler (10 July 1834–17 July 1903). Amongst the group was Sir James Dromgole Linton (26 December 1840-3 October 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 (5 July 1883–11 May 1974). Suffolk artists who exhibited at the Chelsea Art Society include Maria Balfour; Patrick Will Baker; Henrietta Charteris ; Roy Connelly; Edgar Downs; Penny German; Caroline Greene; Hugo Grenville and Jane Hamilton.
Website: https://chelseaartsociety.org.uk