Jane Hurlstone (née Coral; c. 1817 – 2 October 1858) was a Scottish artist and activist. She exhibited at the Royal Academy and Society of British Artists, advocated for animal welfare and vegetarianism, and supported Owenism and Italian nationalism.
Biography
editJane Coral was born around 1817[1] in Scotland.[2] In 1836, she married Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, a fellow artist.[3][4] The couple had two sons, one of whom also pursued a career in art.[3]
Hurlstone was an advocate for animal welfare[2] and has been identified as a potential founding member of the RSPCA.[5][6] She also played a significant role in influencing several London-based vegetarianism organisations.[6] Additionally, Hurlstone was a proponent of Owenism and Italian nationalism.[2]
Hurlstone exhibited some of her watercolour drawings and portraits at the Royal Academy and the Society of British Artists. From 1850 to 1856, she exclusively contributed oil paintings of fanciful subjects to the latter exhibition.[3]
Hurlstone died on 2 October 1858,[3] in London, at the age of 41.[1] She was buried in Norwood Cemetery on 7 October.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c London Metropolitan Archives; "London, England, UK"; London Church of England Parish Registers; Reference Number: Dw/T/0920
- ^ a b c Gregory, James (2007). Of Victorians and Vegetarians: The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth-century Britain. London: Tauris Academic Studies. p. 162. ISBN 978-1-4356-1584-7. OCLC 184749981.
- ^ a b c d Graves, Robert Edmund (1891). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. pp. 317–318.
- ^ The Register, and Magazine of Biography: A Record of Births, Marriages, Deaths, and Other Genealogical and Personal Occurrences. Vol. 1–2. Nichols and sons. 1869. p. 92.
- ^ Gregory, James R.T.E. (June 2013). "James "Shepherd" Smith (1801–1857) and the "Spiritualists": Attitudes to mysticism and physical puritanism in "The Shepherd" and "The Family Herald"". Academia.edu. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
- ^ a b Gregory, James Richard Thomas Elliott (2002). "Biographical Index of British Vegetarians and Food reformers of the Victorian Era". The Vegetarian Movement in Britain c.1840–1901: A Study of Its Development, Personnel and Wider Connections (PDF). Vol. 2. University of Southampton. pp. 62–63. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
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