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JAMESON, Anna Brownell
- Born
- Dublin, Ireland, 1794
- Died
- Ealing, England, 1860
- Biography synopsis
- Anna Murphy Brownell Jameson was an amateur artist and critic. Originally from Ireland, her family moved to England just before the rebellion. She later came to Canada with her husband, amateur painter Robert S. Jameson, after he was appointed Attorney-General of Upper Canada in 1836. During the fifteen months spent in Canada she traveled throughout the Great Lake region, recording her travels extensively through writing and illustration in her book "Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada." She also wrote on various art subjects as a critic in the books "Sacred and Legendary Art" and "Early Italian Painters." Her books were widely read and respected, and she was best known as an author, an art and literary critic, and feminist.
- Media used
- Book illustration
- Drawing
- Watercolour
- File & Archive locations
- National Gallery of Canada, ON - Library and Archives
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative Documentation Centre, QC
- Brown University Library, RI
- Morgan Library and Museum, NY
- New York Public Library - Archives & Manuscripts Division
- Folger Shakespeare Library, DC
- Bibliothèque nationale de France
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Birkwood, Maria Susan. Different Sides of the Picture: Four women's views of Canada (1816-1838). Ontario: University of Western Ontario, 1997
- Bryan, Michael. Bryan's Dictionary of Painter's and Engravers: Biographical and Critical. New York: MacMillan, 1925
- Colombo, John Robert. Colombo's Canadian References Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1976
- F. Herrmann. "Mrs. Jameson's Companion to the Most Celebrated Private Galleries of Art in London." Connoisseur 162 (May 1966): 31-35, 102-106
- Harper, J. Russell. Early Painters and Engravers in Canada Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970
- Hensel, Wilhelm. "Anna Brownell Jameson, née Murphy." 19th Century Society Portraits. London: Goethe Institute, 1986
- Holcomb, A. M. "A.-F. Rio, Anna Jameson and Some Sources of the Second Colume of Modern Painters by Ruskin." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6.91 (Jan. 1978): 1-20
- Kear, Celine. "Canada's First Literary Ladies." Beaver 82.1 (Feb-Mar. 2002): 15-18
- Marsh, James H, ed. Canadian Encyclopedia Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1988
- McKenzie, Ruth. "Fanny Amelia Bayfield (Wright)." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online Ottawa: Libraries and Archives Canada, 2008
http://www.biographi.ca/en/ - Robbins, John Everett, ed. Encyclopedia Canadiana Ottawa: Canadiana Company of Canada, Grolier Society of Canada, 1957
- Roy, Wendy. "'Here is the picture as well as I can paint it': Anna Jameson's Illustrations for 'Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada.'" Canadian Literature 177 (Summer 2003): 97-119
- Ryder, Ilona. "The influence of German Romanticism in Ann Brownell Jameson's "'Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada.'" Alberta: University of Alberta, 1994
- Sampson, Margaret Virginia. Building Nation, Writing Self: The Autobiographical Writings of Anna Jameson, Susanna Moodie, and Catharine Parr Traill Halifax: Dalhousie University, 1992
- Sutherland, Katherine Gail. Bloodletters: Configurations of Female Sexuality in Canadian Women's Writing. Ontario: York University, 1993
Writings by- Jameson, Anna Brownell. Early Canadian Sketches. Toronto: Burns & MacEachern Ltd, 1959
- Jameson, Anna Brownell. Memoirs of Early Italian Painters. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896
- Jameson, Anna Brownell. "Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts." Sacred and Legendary Art, 7th edition. London: Longmans, Green, 1885
- Jameson, Anna Brownell Murphy. Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada. Toronto: Nelson, 1943
