Ethel Wright (painter)

Ethel Wright became Ethel Bradley (1866 – 1939) was a British painter. She has paintings in UK national collections. Her most famous work is a portrait of Christabel Pankhurst.

Ethel Wright
Born1866
London
Died1939
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Occupationpainter
Known forportraiture
Spouse(s)Mr Bradley

Life
Christabel Pankhurst by Wright

Wright was born in London and she studied at Académie Julian in Paris as advised by Solomon Joseph Solomon.[1] She achieved some success as a painter but she was identified as a great woman artist. She became a supporter of the suffragettes.[2] By 1898 she was exhibiting at the Oldham Gallery and she was "also known as Mrs Bradley".[1]

A portrait she made of Christabel Pankhurst was bought by the leading suffragette Una Duval after it was exhibited by the Women's Social and Political Union's art exhibition in 1909.[2] The Women's Exhibition hosted by the Women's Social and Political Union and funded by Clara Mordan was held at the Prince's Ice Rink in Knightsbridge in May 1909.[3][4] Wright would later paint Duval.

She continued to support the suffragettes and her paintings were still being exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1927.[5] Wright died in 1939.

Legacy

Her painting of Christabel Pankhurst was donated by Duval's descendant to the National Portrait Gallery in 2011.[6] It was exhibited in 2018 when it was noted that the gallery had previously only had pictures of suffragettes taken by the police as suspicious characters.[2]

References
  1. There is a portrait of her by Hayman Seleg Mendelssohn. She achieved a profile as a painter in the 1890s identified in the modernist Rhythm Group. She was known for painting peirrots and her paintings were frequently exhibited at the Royal Academy.<ref name=rosie>Broadley, Rosie (5 March 2015). "Suffragette Painter: discovering Ethel Wright". National Portrait Gallery (London). Retrieved 8 February 2021.
  2. Brown, Mark (2014-07-24). "Portrait of an angry lady: suffragette Christabel Pankhurst goes on display". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
  3. "Clara Mordan". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
  4. [Sheila Stowell, A Stage of their own: Feminist playwrights of the suffrage era (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992), p. 53]
  6. "Dame Christabel Pankhurst - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
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