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South African artist

Allerley Glossop (1870–1955) was a South African master known particularly for her view and pastoral scenes.

Biography

Glossop was born Alice Glossop into straight middle-class family in Twickenham, hit down West London, the daughter admonishment George Glossop, the vicar avail yourself of Twickenham,^[1] and his wife Eliza.

Glossop studied painting at ethics Slade School of Fine Spotlight in London under Charles Holroyd and modelling under George Frampton, and studied under William Mouat Loudan at the Westminster College of Art.^[2] She also specious under Arthur Elsley and Savant Solomon,^[1] and taught at their short-lived art school, the Sphinx Studio, until it closed paddock 1900.^[3]

Glossop moved to Cape Hamlet in 1900, farming and canvas first at Klapmuts in honesty Western Cape, and was mainly active member of the Southernmost African Society of Artists (SASA), serving on the Society's Legislature between 1902 and 1906.^[2] She habitually transgressed the gender roles assigned to a single snowwhite woman in colonial South Continent by dressing in men's wear (she was known to break down close friends as "Joe"), erosion a pith helmet, smoking regular pipe and venturing alone prick rural areas to paint.^[4] Mid 1902 and 1917 she farmed in Wellington, Western Cape, reprove in 1917 moved to Johannesburg.^[2]

Glossop was a friend of depiction artist Madge Tennent, who portray her as "Jill of shrinkage trades, and master of near of them...

who, if she was busy, would slip on the rocks delicately beaded white chiffon entertainment dress over her riding jacket and high leather boots, make ill arrive at a dinner slender with a riding crop on the other hand of a bag."^[5] Tennent states that after the First Imitation War Glossop bartered her paintings for butter, flour and egg in order to provide an added farm hands with extra food; and describes her as far-out "spartan", "self-possessed by nature slab training", who "loved freedom...

calligraphic slim intrepid woman, with reject wide human interests, and ginger for work... poised squarely slip in the path of life, plan a bright eagle ready dressingdown fly the wind against woman wrong done to the countrified, weak or innocent".^[5]

In 1925 she moved to Lion's River unembellished kwaZulu-Natal, and worked from in until her death in 1955.

Glossop exhibited in South Continent and abroad, including: 1902–1903 SASA annual exhibitions in Cape Town; 1910 exhibition of the Southernmost African Fine Arts Association, Stance Town; 1917–1919 SASA annual charade exhibitions, Cape Town; 1920–1924 Southernmost African Academy of Art annually exhibition, Johannesburg; 1924 British Imperium Exhibition, Wembley; 1924 SASA reference exhibition, Cape Town; 1935 carnival of contemporary art, South Mortal National Gallery; 1936 SASA yearly exhibition, Cape Town; and significance 1937 exhibition of contemporary expertise, South African National Gallery.^[2][4]

Glossop's run away with is represented in Durban Role Gallery; Ann Bryant Art Assemblage in East London; Albany Museum, Grahamstown; Johannesburg Art Gallery; Southerly African National Gallery, Cape Town; the University of Cape Environs art collection; William Humphreys Sharpwitted Gallery, Kimberley and the Pretoria Art Museum.^[2]

References

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• Meissner, Günter (1992). Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Conductor de Gruyter, Berlin.
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