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Harriet Agnew
Born
Harriet Collins

(1836-03-16)16 March 1836
Died17 November 1914(1914-11-17) (aged 78)
NationalityScottish

Harriet Agnew (fl. 1880s) was a Scottish painter.

Life

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Her father was Henry Collins, a linen manufacturer.

Harriet Collins was born in Ireland c. 1836.

She married Joseph Agnew (c. 1833 - 1920) from Kinross, a surgeon dentist. Joseph and Harriet married on 9 January 1861 in the Gorbals, Glasgow.

She stayed at 2 Queen Mary Terrace at Crosshill in Glasgow.

The property was up for sale in 1882. It had six rooms and a kitchen and a billiard room.[1] It sold for £950.[2]

1871 Cathcart. 1881 Largs 1891 Partick 1901 Partick

Art

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Her Wallflowers was adjudged as 'remarkably true in colour' in 1881.[3]

Death

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She died on 17 November 1914 at 10.20am at 3 Eglinton Drive, Glasgow. She died of heart failure.

References

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Category:1896 births Category:1969 deaths Category:Scottish women painters