Mary J. Newill

Mary Jane Newill (1860–1947) was an English artist and educator, who worked as a textile worker, landscape painter, book illustrator and stained glass designer.

Born in Shropshire,[1] she studied at the Birmingham School of Art and later taught needlework there between 1892 and 1919. Newill was awarded the John Skirrow Wright scholarship in 1880 which enabled to her to study in Paris. She also later studied tempera painting in Florence. Newill had her own studio in Birmingham by 1906. She was a designer for the Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts and a member of the Birmingham Group and of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society.[2][3]

Embroidery by Newill and her students was displayed at the International Exhibition of 1906 in Christchurch, New Zealand. Some of her embroidery projects were commissioned for churches. Stained glass windows designed by Newill can be seen in the lady chapel of the Church of SS Mary and Ambrose, Edgbaston and in St. Peter's Church in Wrockwardine, Shropshire.[3][4] Examples of her needlework are held in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 "Rediscovered 100 year-old Arts and Crafts embroidery on view at All Saint’s Church, Witley, Sundays 30 October and 6 November" (PDF). All Saints Witley.
  2. ↑ "Mary J. Newill". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951. University of Glasgow.
  3. 1 2 "Mary J Newill (1860–1947), Bromsgrove Guild Designer". Museums Worcestershire.
  4. ↑ Morris, Barbara J (2003). Victorian Embroidery: An Authoritative Guide. p. 144. ISBN 0486426092.
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