Neilson, Janet L

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Neilson, Janet L

• Neilson, Jennie L

Janet (Jennie) L Neilson (born 23rd March 1889) was a student at The Glasgow School of Art over a number of years, from 1905-1909 and the 1915-1916 and 1918-1919 sessions. She was both a day and evening student studying drawing and painting and life under Mr Artot and Mr Dunlop during her first period of study, and a design, drawing and painting and modelling student in the evenings in her later attendance at the school.<p/>

She is noted as being an amateur miniaturist who was active between 1908 and 1912 and who produced "Miniature on Ivory" in 1908, "Miniature Portrait on Ivory" and "Miniature Child on Ivory" in 1911 with the latter two pieces being sold for £8 and £4 respectively. In 1912 Jennie produced a work known as "Firelight Reflection" which was sold by W.M. Taylor Esq for £13.<p/>

Jennie is recorded as being born to parents Alexander Archibald Neilson and Mary Jean Crawford whilst they resided at Young Terrace in Springburn, and who later moved to Hillside Street, Springburn in 1891 when Jennie was two years old. A

Source states that Jennie lived in Victoria, Australia at some point during 1900 before returning home in 1901 to the previous address. West Regent Street is a further location Jennie was based at from around 1911 until 1917. She lost her father in September 1912 and emigrated to Australia in July 1921, arriving on 26th August where she married William Edward Bruce Wilson later that year on 3rd October in Victoria.

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Source suggests the couple had one child during their marriage and resided at a couple of addresses in Maribymong, Victoria before moving to the Australian Capital Territory living in Currong Street and then Coranderrie Street during the 1930s and 1940s. Her mother passed away in April 1946 before Jennie herself died in Canberra Community Hospital on 5th December 1952 and was then buried the next day in a cemetery in the city. Within the

Source she is referred to as Janet (Jennie) suggesting Jennie is how she was known all her life but was not her birth name.<p/><p/>

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Sources: ancestry.co.uk, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts 1861-1989 (Roger Billcliffe) and The Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture (Peter J.M. McEwan).<p/>

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