Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Chantrey Bequest
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/annie-louisa-swynnerton-540" aria-label="More by Annie Louisa Swynnerton" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Annie Louisa Swynnerton</a>
Dame Millicent Fawcett GBE LLD
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1930
adults
Fawcett, Millicent, Dame
individuals: female
named individuals
people
portraits
woman
<p>In 1922 Annie Swynnerton became the first woman to be elected member of the Royal Academy of Arts since its founding in 1768. She was a passionate campaigner for women’s suffrage and painted portraits of several of the movement's leading figures.</p><p>Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, was instrumental in gaining British women over 30 the vote in 1918. She was present in Parliament in 1928 to see the passing of the act that granted women the same voting rights as men.</p><p><em>Gallery label, January 2018</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
28 June 2011 – 9 July 2011
2011-07-09
28 June 2011 – 9 July 2011
2011-07-09
2011-06-28
Mall Galleries (London, UK)
2011-06-28
Retrospective of Founders
Loan-out
23 February 2018 – 6 January 2019
2019-01-06
23 February 2018 – 6 January 2019
2019-01-06
2018-02-23
Manchester Art Gallery (Manchester, UK)
http://www.manchestergalleries.org
2018-02-23
Painting Light and Hope: Annie Swynnerton (1844-1933)
Loan-out
31 October 2022 – 24 September 2023
2023-09-24
31 October 2022
2022-10-31
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2022-10-31
Annie Swynnerton
Collection based display
Dame Millicent Fawcett, G.B.E., LL.D.
support: 827 × 740 × 20 mm
frame: 1120 × 1030 × 130 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1930
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<p>In 1922 Annie Swynnerton became the first woman to be elected member of the Royal Academy of Arts since its founding in 1768. She was a passionate campaigner for women’s suffrage and painted portraits of several of the movement's leading figures.</p>
<p>Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, was instrumental in gaining British women over 30 the vote in 1918. She was present in Parliament in 1928 to see the passing of the act that granted women the same voting rights as men.</p>
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