Nationality: Scottish

Work in Public Collections:Musee du Jeu de Paume, ParisMusee du Luxembourg, Paris (6 paintings)Musee d'OrsayMusee des Beaux-Arts, LyonPhiladelphia Museum of ArtTate Gallery (Chantrey Bequest)Victoria & Albert MuseumVictoria Art Gallery, BathExhibitions:Salon des Beaux-Arts, Paris. 1902 onwards (147 works)Bronze Medal, Orleans France, 1905Liverpool Autumn Exhibition, 1910 & 1912Glasgow Institute of Fine Art,1913Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh , 1914 Mention HonorableSalon des TuileriesRoyal Academy , 1924Beaux Art Gallery, 1927New Burlington Galleries, London: Memorial Exhibition, 1935.Walker Gallery, London: Memorial Exhibition, 1936.Fine Art Society, London, 1979.Societe des Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Elected Associe (1904). Elected Societaire (1910).BIOGRAPHYBEATRICE HOW 1867-1932un des plus originales artistes femmes de notre temps, et des plus penetrantes - Arsene Alexandre.Julia Beatrice How was born in Bideford, Devon in October 1867. Her parents were Scottish from a family of silversmiths in Edinburgh and both died when she was in her early twenties.With a significant inheritance, Beatrice How could enjoy an independence that very few women of her background would ever hope to achieve. Though her decision to study painting in London was not unusual, her subsequent move to study in Paris could only have been possible because of her own financial security.After three years studying in Bushey under Hubert von Herkomer (who segregated the women students and refused to admit any married ladies or women over 28) Paris must have seemed a welcome relief to the young painter. Apart from her annual visit to her sister in Yorkshire, Paris remained her home for the rest of her life.In 1893 she enrolled at the Academie of Monsieur Delacluse and it was in the years up to 1904 that she produced some of her strongest work chiefly inspired by the rural communities of Holland and Brittany. One critic wrote in 1905, 'Miss Beatrice How ... has not merely been affected in matters of technique, but gives us most delightfully, the very sentiment of the country people she paints. It is quite a little miracle of transplanted adaptability'. (W.S Sparrow ed. Women Painters of the World, 1905, pp 69-70)`Un Vieux Hollandais' relates to a number of important paintings of this period, most remarkably `Femme devant le Feu' (exh. Walker Gallery Memorial Show, cat. 21, whereabouts unknown) which shows a seated woman sitting in front of the same tiled wall and the same pot as the anonymous Dutchman. The success of these paintings followed on from `In a Dutch Cottage' , which was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1904, the year she was made an Associe of the Beaux-Arts.Her subsequent work established Beatrice How as an important painter in France, a full member of the Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts with numerous paintings purchased for French public museums. Less was known in Britain of her work until after her death in 1932, though even now she is still considered chiefly for the numerous `Intimiste' paintings of babies and interiors which preoccupied her after 1910. Her early work is of an exceptional strength and quality, all the more remarkable for the single-minded manner in which she pursued her goal in those years.