Wright, Elsie Napier

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Wright, Elsie Napier

Elsie (Eliza) Napier Wright was a student at The Glasgow School of Art from 1913 to 1922. In the 1901 Scotland Census she appears with an estimated year of birth of 1893, but she lists various dates of birth in different documents. She was the daughter of Sarah and John Wright, a doctor, and had at least two siblings (Jessie M.L. and John C.I.). Her father is listed as a soldier in the 1918 Electoral Register for Pollok (Glasgow), and is marked as an absent voter for the years 1918, 1919 and 1920.

Elsie Napier Wright studied Drawing and Painting as a day student at The Glasgow School of Art from sessions 1913/14 to 1917/18, and from then until session 1921/22 as an evening student of the same subject. She also studied Design during her first session at the school, receiving a Certificate for Needlecraft in session 1914/15 with a "Very Good" mark and a recommendation to take a Post Certificate Course in the subject. During session 1916/18, Elsie N. Wright was granted a Haldane Day School Bursary for £12 10s-. She was also appointed Class Monitress for session 1914/15, services that granted her an honorarium. She obtained the Diploma in Drawing and Painting from The Glasgow School of Art in 1916/17, and then in 1919/1920 Elsie Napier Wright qualified as an Art Teacher in the same institution.

During her time at The Glasgow School of Art, Elsie N. Wright listed her address as 1 Seyton Avenue (Langside), which is the same address given by her father to the Medical Directory during those years. However, in the Electoral Register for Glasgow she is listed at 84 Langside Avenue until the 1930s, and then at Kenmure Street in Pollokshields. In 1929 she travelled to Algiers (Algeria) for four months, occasion where she described her occupation as "Artist".

From 1940 to 1946 she exhibited the following six watercolour paintings at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts: "Loch Sunart" (1940), "The Old Pier, Strachur" (1941), "A Home of the Campbells" (1941), "Fellside, Kendal" (1942), "Old Village, Renfrewshire" (1942), and "Rose and Crown Yard, Kendal" (1946). Elsie Napier Wright died on 17th September 1947 in Milngavie.

Sources:

• Billcliffe, Roger. (1992). The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts: 1861-1989. A Dictionary of Exhibitors at the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. Volume 4: Q-Z. (p.349) Bearsden, Glasgow: The Woodend Press.
• Ancestry website (www.ancestry.co.uk)

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