to find fulfilment in a career, one sitter remembering that once the artist had discovered she had married – "She felt that I had quite changed and that it had a detrimental effect on my personality". The artist never achieved the promise shown at the start of her career, it is thought mainly because of the breaks caused by the death of her father and the need to care for her mother until she was aged 52. She was found dead at the bottom of her studio stairs in Crown Street, Bury St Edmunds at the end of March 1946 at the age of 78. Legacy A 'representative collection' of Rose Mead's paintings are held, and some shown, in Bury St Edmunds' Moyses Hall museum. A Rose Mead painting of the Unitarian Meeting House in Bury was displayed in an exhibition marking the building's 300 year anniversary. Gallery References 1867 births 1946 deaths 19th-century English painters 20th-century English painters 19th-century English women artists 20th-century English women artists Alumni of the Westminster School of Art English women painters Artists from Bury St Edmunds