WILSON, Annie Heath

1851 - 1931

Annie Heath Wilson was born at Glasgow in 1851, daughter of Charles Heath Wilson (September 1809-3 July 1882), an artist, and his second wife Johanna Catherine Thomson (1809-1887), eldest daughter of the late William John Thomson, portrait-painter, who married at 37 Inverleith Row, Edinburgh on 16 August 1848, Charles's first wife was Louisa Balfour Orr (1811-14 March 1847), daughter of Surgeon John Orr, who married at Edinburgh on 3 October 1838 and by whom he had a son and two daughters. In 1869 Charles Wilson and his family left Scotland and settled at Florence, where he was involved with a large literary and artistic circle and Charles Heath Wilson died at Florence on 3 July 1882. Annie, who was a sister to William Heath Wilson, was a landscape and figure painter, who exhibited at Royal Birmingham Society of Artists; Dudley Gallery; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Walker Art Gallery; London Salon; the Royal Academy; the Royal Society of British Artists; the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Society of Women Artists 1880-1920, from Eastbourne 1880, Florence 1884, London 1886 and 1908, Genoa, Italy 1888, Tangier, Morocco 1913, Walberswick, Suffolk 1917, Kew, Surrey 1918 and Wenhaston, Suffolk 1919. In 1911, a 59-year-old 'living on own means', at Sunnyside, Wenhaston, Suffolk with her 61-year-old unmarried brother William Heath Wilson. Annie Heath Wilson died at Wenhaston on 25 September 1931, aged 80, and buried in Wenhaston churchyard, she was unmarried.

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