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47. *Louise Jacobs ARCA (1880 - 1946)
Portrait of Estella Solomons
Pencil, 29 x 20.5cm
Signed with initials and dated 1908
Fig. 24. Estella Solomons “Self Portrait”
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Louise Jacobs was Estella’s first cousin and life long friend. She was a suffragette artist
attached to the “Suffrage Atelier” .
The Atelier, a group of artists who used art to promote
the Votes for Women campaign, was founded in London in February 1909, the aim
being ‘to encourage Artists to forward theWomen’s Movement, and particularly the
Enfranchisement of Women, by means of pictorial publications.
Estella and Louise went on a painting trip together to Holland in 1911 of which there
are many amusing cartoons in a family collection . Louise is yet another woman who
tends just to be a footnote as little appears to have been written about her studies and
her art .Together with Estella’s other friend Mary Duncan, all three had a very successful
joint exhibition at the Arlington Galleries, London in 1935 which received very favourable
reviews.
