Isabel Rawsthorne is often remembered as an artist’s muse rather than an artist in her own right. Recently 4 works were gifted to the Ferens Art Gallery and in 2021 Carol Jacobi published the monograph Out of the Cage, the Art of Isabel Rawsthorne. In this talk Carol tells Rawsthorne’s story, while highlighting her significance as an artist.
Carol Jacobi is Curator of British Art 1850-1915 at Tate Britain and a specialist on nineteenth century British Art. She is member of British Art Network Woman Artists and Race, Empire and the Pre–Raphaelites group, and the Race Equality Taskforce at Tate. Carol has a PhD in Art History (Birkbeck) and has taught at Birkbeck, the Courtauld Institute and was the Leverhulme Fellow in the History of Portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery in 2008-9. Her exhibitions include Van Gogh and Britain (Tate Britain); Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces from the Tate (Canberra, Milan, Budapest); William Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision; Love and Desire (Toronto, Minneapolis, Manchester).
Free, booking essential.
