Nationality United Kingdom Name Jessie Macgregor | Died 1919 | |
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Born 1847 Liverpool Books Gardens of Celebrities and Celebrated Gardens in and Around London | ||
Jessie Macgregor (1847–1919) was a British painter.
Macgregor first learned drawing at the drawing academy in Liverpool run by her grandfather Andrew Hunt. Her parents went to live in London and she began to study painting there, becoming a pupil at the Schools of the Royal Academy where her teachers were Lord Leighton, P. H. Calderon, R.A., and John Pettie, R.A.
She won a gold medal at the Royal Academy for history painting in 1871. She was the second woman after Louisa Starr's gold medal in 1867, and the last woman to do so until 1909. She beat Julia Cecilia Smith and Julia Bracewell Folkard. It was noted how these three women's achievements revealed the silliness of the rules that excluded women from becoming full members of the Royal Academy.
MacGregor exhibited paintings at Chicago World Exposition in 1893.
Her painting In the Reign of Terror was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.