Rose Lowcay was a landscape artist from Adelaide, Australia. She was one of the first of a long line of Australian artists who were encouraged by Sir William Ashton to paint in Cornwall. In her early teenage years she was already the recipient of a number of art awards and left home in 1908 for three years of study overseas, during which time she trained in London with Algernon Talmage, at Newlyn under Stanhope FORBES, and in St Ives and Lamorna with John Noble BARLOW, where she made friends with a fellow-student, the American Anna Althea HILLS.

Rose returned to Australia in 1912. The paintings of Cornwall which she had sent home were highly praised, and she was elected a Fellow of the South Australian Society of Arts.