Rosa Howlett
English artist and suffragette (1863–1961)
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Biography
Howlett was born in Norwich, Norfolk, and was the daughter of a leather merchant and shoe manufacturer.[1]
Howlett studied under Hubert von Herkomer at his school in Bushey.[2] Her painting "Market Scene" is held in the collection of the Bushey Museum and Art Gallery.[3] She exhibited at the Royal Albert Hall with The London Salon of the Allied Artists' Association in 1901 and 1911.[4]
In 1916, Howlett co-exhibited the work Noah's Ark at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, which she constructed with Margaret West,[5][6] who she shared a home with.[7] She was also friends with Virginia Woolf.[2]
Howlett was active in the women's suffrage movement. When a branch of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was opened in Norwich in 1912,[8] she was appointed a local secretary.[9]
Howlett died in 1961 in Hertford, Hertfordshire.[citation needed]