Louisa Starr

British painter (1845–1909)

Louisa Starr Canziani

Louisa Starr c. 1900

Born|

Louisa Starr

1845 (1845)

London, United Kingdom

Died| 25 May 1909(1909-05-25) (aged 63–64) 25 May 1909

London, United Kingdom

Nationality| British
Known for| Painting
Spouse| Enrico Canziani

Louisa Starr, later Louisa Canziani (1845 - 25 May 1909) was a British painter.[1]

## Biography

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Starr was born in London and lived on Russell Square when she became a copyist at the British Museum.[2] Studying at the Royal Academy Schools, she showed her first work there in 1866 and by 1876 had showed 17 paintings.[2] She won a gold medal at the Royal Academy for history painting in December 1867.[1] She was the first woman to do so and was followed by Jessie Macgregor's gold medal in 1871, but the next woman to do so was not until 1909.[3]

She married the Italian civil engineer Enrico Canziani (1848-1931) and thereafter signed her works with her married name. Her daughter Estella Canziani also became an artist.[4]

She exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[5]

Her painting Sintram and his mother was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.[6]

Starr died in London in 25 May 1909 and was buried in the Starr family grave (plot no.19975) on the western side of Highgate Cemetery near the grave of Elizabeth Siddal.[citation needed]

## Gallery

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* Cold Spring - The Alien (1906; Aberdeen Art Gallery)

* Sintram and his Mother, from a story by De la Motte Fouqué

* Grave of Louisa Starr in Highgate Cemetery

## References

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1. ^ a b Brian Stewart & Mervyn Cutten (1997). The Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-173-2.
2. ^ a b Louisa Starr in English Female Artists by Ellen Creathorne Clayton, 1876
3. ^ Louisa Starr and Jessie Macgregor and their gold medals in The Dictionary of British Women Artists, by Sara Gray, 2009
4. ^ "Louisa Starr Canziani". www.britishmuseum.org. The British Museum. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
5. ^ Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 26 July 2018.
6. ^ Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905

## External links

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* Media related to Louisa Starr at Wikimedia Commons
* 29 artworks by or after Louisa Starr Canziani at the Art UK site
* Louisa Starr Canziani on artnet

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

Artists|

* ULAN
* RKD Artists
* Musée d'Orsay