Background
Rose Barton was born in Dublin in 1856.
Rose Barton was born in Dublin in 1856.
Barton exhibited with a number of different painting societies, most notably the Watercolour Society of Ireland (WCSI), the Royal Academy (Research Associate), the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), the Society of Women Artists and the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS). Her paintings are in public collections of Irish painting in both Ireland and Britain, including the National Gallery of Ireland and Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane in Dublin, and the Ulster Museum in Belfast. Her father was a lawyer from Rochestown County Tipperary and her mother family was from County Galway.
Educated privately, she was a liberal in social affairs
Her interests included horseracing. She began exhibiting her broad-wash watercolours painting with the Watercolour Society of Ireland (WCSI) in 1872.
In 1879, she joined the local committee of the Irish Fine Art Society. Afterwards she trained at Paul Jacob Naftel"s art studio in London.
Rose like Butler, studied under Naftel.
In 1882 she exhibited her picture Dead Game, at the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA). In 1884, she exhibited at the Royal Academy (Research Associate). Later, she showed at the Japanese Gallery, the Dudley Gallery and the Grosvenor Gallery in London.
Rose Barton"s watercolours and townscapes were becoming well known in both Dublin and London.
This was helped by her illustrations in books of both cities including Picturesque Dublin, Old and New by Francis Farmer and her own book Familiar London. Huish, Marcus B. (1904), "Rose Barton, A.R.W.S", British water-colour art (First ed), The Fine Art Society, A. & C. Black, p.
82.
McCormack, West. J. (2001), "Barton, Rose (1856-1929) Watercolourist", The Blackwell companion to modern Irish culture, Wiley-Blackwell, p. 82.
Kelly, John South. (2005), John Kelly.
Ronald Schuchard, eds., The Collected Letters of West.B. Yeats: 1905-1907, Volume 4, Oxford University Press,, Online Computer Library Center 0198126840.
She became a full member of the RWS in 1911.
