Lota Bowen was a British painter. She was a member of the Society of Women Artists (and its sometime president), the Society of Painters in Tempera

Society of Painters in Tempera

The Society of Painters in Tempera was founded in 1901 by Christiana Herringham and a group of British painters who were interested in reviving the art of tempera painting. Lady Herringham was an expert copyist of the Italian Old Masters and had translated Il Libro dell' Arte o Trattato della...

, and the 91 Art Club, a Chelsea

Chelsea, London

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 club for women artists. Born in Armley

Armley

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, Yorkshire, she studied in Ludovici's studio London

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; later in Rome

Rome

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 under Santoro and in the night classes of the Circolo Artistico. Her pictures are principally landscapes and mainly in private collections. Among the most noted are: On the Venetian Lagoons; Old Stone Pines, Lido, Venice; Evening on Lake Lugano; Evening Glow Dolomites; The Old Bird Fancier; and Moonrise on Crowborough, Sussex; all exhibited at the Royal Academy

Royal Academy

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. She also painted portraits and figure subjects and was noted for her "broad swinging brush and great love of 'tone'".