Anna AIRY, British Painter. Associate of Royal Society of Painter Etchers, 1908; Royal Institute of Oil Painters, 1909.
Background
AIRY, Anna was born on June 6, 1882. Daughter of Wilfrid Airy, Member of Institution of Civil Engineers, expert on weights and measures to the Board of Trade, and Anna, daughter of ProfessorListing of Gottingen University, Germany. Granddaughter of Sir George Biddell Airy, Knight Commander of the Bath, AstronomerRoyal.
Education
Studied at Slade School of Ait, London. Melville Nettleship Prize at the Slade School of Art, 1900. Melville Nettleship Prize, 1901.
Slade Scholarship,1902. Slade prizes for portrait,figure, and other subjects.
Career
Exhibited Royal Academy and elsewhere in 1905, and each subsequent year. Principal pictures: Sir Gorell Barnes, Willowpattern. La Penseuse; The Scandal-mongers, Franco-British Exhibition, 1908.
Purchased for Walker Gallery, Liverpool, 1908. Elected member of the Pastel Society, 1907. Painter, portraits and figure subjects, etcher, pastellist.
Membership
Associate of Royal Society of Painter Etchers, 1908. Royal Institute of Oil Painters, 1909.