Isabel Edith WRIGHTSON

Isabel Edith WRIGHTSON
1890
1971

Born in Croydon, she studied at the Byam Shaw School for Drawing and Painting. She began to exhibit in 1919, living in Croydon, where she was art mistress at her old school, Croydon High School for Girls. In 1935 she decided to study further at the FORBES SCHOOL of Painting in Newlyn. During that time, she visited Polperro. 

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, after her retirement, she continued to spend time in Cornwall, producing a number of attractive paintings of local fishing ports. Her last Royal Academy exhibit was 'A Cornish Lane in January' in 1951.

After her mother's death in 1955, Isabel moved to Worthing, where she died.

media

Painter in oil and watercolour

works and access

Works include: Preparing to Sail - Newlyn Harbour; Polperro

exhibitions

1919-1954: L (3); RA (2); RI (12); ROI (9)

memberships

RA; RI; ROI

references

1901 Census

Green Posing the Model

Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall (p301)

Johnson & Greutzner

Tovey, David (2021) Polperro - Cornwall's Forgotten Art Centre - Volume Two - Post-1920, Wilson Books