Rose Maynard Barton RWS (1856-1929)

The Irish townscape painter Rose Barton was born in County Tipperary, in 1856. She was the cousin of the writer and artist Edith Somerville. Educated privately, she began exhibiting her watercolour painting with the Water Colour Society of Ireland (WCSI) in 1872. In 1875, Rose Barton Rose and her sister Emily visited Brussels where they had lessons in drawing and fine art painting.

Evidently her artistry blossomed, as three years later she exhibited her picture Dead Game, at the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) - the first of several paintings she showed there over the years. In 1879, she joined the local committee of the Irish Fine Art Society and within 3-4 years she determined ...