Jessie Algie

Algie studied at the Glasgow School of Art before moving to Stirling^[2] where she became associated with both the Cambuskenneth and Craigmill circles of artists.^[3][4] Her usual subjects were flowers.^[5] She had two paintings exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1899 and subsequently exhibited at the Royal Academy in London.^[3][6] In 1908, she had a joint exhibition at the Baille Gallery in London alongside Anne Muir, Jessie M. King and Louise Ellen Perman.^[3][4] During her career, as well as the Royal Scottish Academy,^[7] Algie also exhibited with the Aberdeen Artists Society, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and at the Glasgow Institute of Fine Art.^[3][1] She won a silver medal for her painting of delphiniums in 1910.^[8]

In her later life, Algie lived at Kirn in Argyll.^[9] She died in 1927, in her sixties.^[10] The Glasgow Art Gallery holds examples of her work while the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool has her painting Pink and Sunflowers.^[6][9]

• 7 artworks by or after Jessie Algie at the Art UK site

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