Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse

British artist (1857–1944)

John William Waterhouse

(m. 1883)

Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse (1857–1944), born Esther Maria Kenworthy, was a British artist who exhibited her flower-paintings at the Royal Academy in London and elsewhere.

Waterhouse was the daughter of James Lees Kenworthy, an artist and schoolmaster from Ealing, in West London; and Elizabeth, a school-mistress.^[1] She married her fellow artist John William Waterhouse at the parish church in Ealing, in 1883, and thereafter used the name Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse.^[1] Initially, they lived in a purpose built artistic colony in Primrose Hill, where the houses had studios. In around 1900, they moved to St John's Wood.^[1] Waterhouse exhibited her flower paintings at the Royal Academy and with the Royal Society of British Artists in London. ^[2]

Waterhouse is buried, along with her husband, at Kensal Green Cemetery, and his portrait of her is now owned by Sheffield City Art Galleries.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Peter Trippi (2004), "Waterhouse, John William (1849–1917)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press
^ Christopher Wood (1978). The Dictionary of Victorian Painters. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 0-902028-72-3.