Rose Maynard Barton

Who was Rose Maynard Barton?

Rose Mary Barton R.W.S. was an Anglo-Irish artist, a watercolourist who painted landscape, street scenes, gardens, child portraiture and illustrations of the townscape of Britain and Ireland. Barton exhibited with a number of different painting societies, most notably the Watercolour Society of Ireland, the Royal Academy, the Royal Hibernian Academy, the Society of Women Artists and the Royal Watercolour Society. She became a full member of the RWS in 1911. Her paintings are in public collections of Irish painting in both Ireland and Britain, including the National Gallery of Ireland and Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane in Dublin, and the Ulster Museum in Belfast.