Ruth Hollingsworth

Hollingsworth was born in Clapham in London and was the fourth of five daughters born to Alexander Hollingsworth, a newspaper proprietor, and his wife Charlotte Ellen née Allen.^[1] Hollingsworth attended the Slade School of Art and the London School of Art.^[2][3] She lived in London and later at Dedham in Essex and painted landscapes in Breconshire and in Italy.^[3] Hollingsworth exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, with the New English Art Club, with the Society of Women Artists and elsewhere.^[2] In the 1930s she was a regular exhibitor with the Ipswich Art Club.^[1] In 1917 she married the artist Richard Sydney Hellaby and sometimes signed her works as Ruth Hellaby.^[1] A number of museums in Britain hold examples of her work and the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa includes two of her paintings, including a portrait of a young women, Odette.^[4]

• 3 artworks by or after Ruth Hollingsworth at the Art UK site
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