Mary J. Newill
Born 1860
Died 1947
Active: 1900 - 1923
Teacher of needlework, textile worker, lanscape painter, illustrator and stained glass designer
Institutional and Business Connections
Elected professional associate member of Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1909 - 1923
First listed in the Society's exhibition catalogues as an Associate member from Spring 1909. Note, however, that Newill is wrongly listed on p. 3. at the front of the catalogues until 1913 as Mary I. Newill, but in the list of exhibitors at the back of the catalogues she is listed under Mary J. Newill. Was never elected to full membership of the Society.
Member of Birmingham Art Circle
1903 - 1906
Resigned in 1906.
Teacher at Birmingham Municipal School of Art, Central School
1903 - 1921
Teacher of Embroidery and Needlework.
Worked for Bromsgrove Guild
1900 (Presumed) - 1906 (Circa)
Produced two needlework panels for the Guild's south bedroom in the British Pavillion of the Paris Exposition in 1900. See Townshend 'The Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts', in Watt 'The Bromsgrove Guild', (1999), p. 16. Goodwin and Townshend note that Newill was working in her own studio in Birmingham in 1906 and teaching at the Birmingham School of Art in 1920; however, how long she continued to work for the Guild is not known (see 'The Workers at the Bromsgrove Guild', p. 53).
Sources
Birmingham Municipal School of Art. Programme for the Session 1905-1906, beginning on Monday the 11th September, 1905 Birmngham School of Art Programmes
1905
Specialising in the teaching of carving.
The Art Circle, Register of Members to Date, 1879-2002 Birmingham Art Circle
2002 (Presumed)
Unpaged.
The Bromsgrove Guild. An Illustrated History, 1999
1999
p. 16 and p. 53.
Citing this record
'Mary J. Newill', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1206028809, accessed 23 Sep 2023]
