A View of One's Own - Landscapes by British women artists, 1760-1860

Catalogue of the exhibition A View of One's Own - Landscapes by British women artists, 1760-1860, presented at the Courtauld Gallery, London (28 January – 20 May, 2026).

When the Royal Academy was founded in 1768, its members included two women, yet there would not be another female academician until Dame Laura Knight was elected in 1936. Despite this institutional exclusion, women artists in
Britain continued to train, practice, and exhibit during this period, particularly in the field of landscape watercolours.

A View of One's Own accompanies an exhibition of landscape drawings and watercolours by a group of inspiring British women artists working both in Britain and abroad between 1760 and 1860.

Featured artists include Harriet Lister and Lady Mary Lowther, who were among the first to depict the Lake District, and Amelia Long, Lady Farnborough, one of the first British artists to travel to France Following the Napoleonic Wars. It sheds new light on artists who achieved recognition during their lifetimes as well as on those whose work is ripe for rediscovery.

Artists included: Harriet Lister; Mary Lowther; Mary Mitford; Elizabeth Susan Percy; Mary Smirke; Eliza Gore; Fanny Blake; Amelia Long; Elizabeth Batty; Richenda Gurney