Louisa Starr

Louisa Starr
Born	1845 London
Died	1909 London
Nationality	United Kingdom

Louisa Starr (1845 – 1909) was an British painter.

Starr was born in London and lived on Russell Square when she became a copyist at the British Museum.^[1] She became a student at the Royal Academy and showed her first work there in 1866 and by 1876 she had already showed 17 paintings there.^[1] She won a gold medal at the Royal Academy for history painting in 1867. She was the first woman to do so and was followed by Jessie Macgregor's gold medal in 1871, but the next woman to do so was not until 1909.^[2] She married Enrico Canziani and thereafter signed her works with her married name. Her daughter Estella Canziani also became an artist.

She exhibited paintings at Chicago World Exposition in 1893.^[3]

Her painting Sintram and his mother was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.^[4] Starr died in London.

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  Sintram and his mother

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  Portrait of Brian Houghton Hodgson

References

1. Louisa Starr in English Female Artists by Ellen Creathorne Clayton, 1876
2. Louisa Starr and Jessie Macgregor and their gold medals in The Dictionary of British Women Artists, by Sara Gray, 2009
3. 1893 Chicago World's Fair and Exposition
4. Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905

• 5 Paintings by Louisa Starr at the BBC Your Paintings site
• 24 Paintings by Louisa Starr Canziani at the BBC Your Paintings site
• Louisa Starr Canziani on artnet