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Agnes Jane Rudd (1861–1939) was an English landscape artist who worked mostly in watercolour.
Early life[edit]
Born in Stranton, County Durham, one of the five children of the Rev. John Rudd, Vicar of Stranton, Rudd was educated by a governess.[1] In 1881, she was living in a boarding house in Holdenhurst, Bournemouth, with her mother and three sisters,[2] while her father was still living at Stranton.[3] By 1886, he was no longer Vicar of Stranton, and in May of that year appeared in the Hartlepool Police Court charged with non-payment of rates.[4] He died intestate at Yarm on 9 April 1888, leaving a personal estate valued at £288.[5]
Life and career[edit]
In 1888, Rudd exhibited a work titled “Moor and sea” at the Royal Academy.[6]
In 1891, her mother was living in different lodgings in Bournemouth, with three daughters, including Rudd.[7]
In 1894, the Journal of the Ex Libris Society reported on the creation of a bookplate by Warrington Hogg for Agnes Rudd, describing her as “Miss Agnes J. Rudd , the well-known watercolour artist”. The work featured an artist’s palette and was dated 1892.[8]
By 1894, Mrs Rudd had acquired a house, Teesdale, Spencer Road, Bournemouth,[9] and in 1901 her three single daughters were still living with her there. Rudd, now 39, gave her occupation as “Painter (artist)”, her younger sister Mabel was “Teacher of Music”, and her mother and older sister Emily were “living on own means”.[10]
In 1911, Rudd was living at Rosaria, Flaghead Road, Canford Cliffs, Bournemouth, with one older sister, Emily Ann Rudd, an elderly widow, Jasmina Frederica Asser, and one servant.[11]
Rudd died on 3 December 1939 at home, The Glen, Alumhurst Road, Bournemouth, leaving an estate valued at £10,202,[12] equivalent to £703,669 in 2023. In 1940, The Bulletin of the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum for the months June to September was mostly devoted to Rudd’s work.[13]
Notes[edit]
- ^ 1871 United Kingdom census, Vicarage, Stranton, ancestry.co.uk, accessed 6 June 2021
- ^ 1881 United Kingdom census, Amberley, Holdenhurst, Bournemouth, ancestry.co.uk, accessed 6 June 2021
- ^ “CORRESPONDENCE. THE JUBILEE DEMONSTRATION” in Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, Monday 9 May 1887, p. 2
- ^ ”THE REV. JOHN RUDD & HIS RATES” in Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, Monday 24 May 1886, p. 3: “THE REV. JOHN RUDD & HIS RATES. At West Hartlepool Police-court this afternoon, the Rev. John Rudd, late vicar of Stranton, summoned for non-payment of £1 10s 6d, the amount of his improvement and highway rates.”
- ^ Wills and Administrations (England and Wales) 1888 p. 333
- ^ Exhibition of the Royal Academy, Volumes 120-123 (1888), p. 45: “1449 - Moor and sea Agnes J. Rudd”
- ^ https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/6598/images/HAMRG12_903_904-0236
- ^ Journal of the Ex Libris Society, Vol. 3 (1894), p. 64
- ^ ”COOK-GENERAL SERVANT Wanted” in Western Gazette, Friday 30 November 1894, p. 4: “Good character indispensable. Private house. Young housemaid kept. — Mrs. Rudd, Teesdale, Spencer Road, Bournemouth.”
- ^ https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/7814/images/HAMRG13_1043_1044-0251
- ^ 1911 United Kingdom census, ancestry.co.uk, accessed 6 June 2021
- ^ “RUDD Agnes Jane” in Wills and Administrations (England and Wales) 1940 https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Rudd&yearOfDeath=1940&page=1#calendar p. 692
- ^ Elijah Howarth, F. R. Rowley, W. Ruskin Butterfield, Museums Journal Vol. 40 (1941), p. 211