Mary Annie Sloane of Hammersmith Terrace – Painter and Printmaker

An exhibition of works related to the work and life of Mary Sloane (1867-1961) organised by William Morris Society.

Mary Sloane received an innovative and progressive education for a woman of her time; she studied etching and engraving at The Royal College of Art and was a vigorous member and later Honorary Secretary of the Women's Guild of Arts founded by William Morris's daughter May in 1907. William Morris encouraged her work and she was a frequent visitor at Kelmscott House, and Kelmscott Manor, Oxford, Morris's country home. She met many other members of the Arts and Crafts circle such as Edward Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown and Phillip Webb.

Mary Sloane lived for a while in Majorca with May Morris and in her fifties took over the lease of 8 Hammersmith Terrace from her.

Exhibiting at the Royal Academy and the Paris Salon in her lifetime, examples of her work can now be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow but this exhibition will be the first chance to see works from the William Morris collection as well as loaned pencil drawings, watercolours and etchings.

Visitors will also be able to see other exhibits relating to the life of William Morris including the Albion printing press used to print the Kelmscott Chaucer. Printing demonstrations take place every Saturday.

William Morris Society
Established in 1950, the William Morris Soceity exists to promote the life and work of this great Victorian. Their headquarters are based in the lower floors of Kelmscott House, Morris’s London home for the last eighteen years of his life and where he died in 1896. It was at Kelmscott House that Morris established the Hammersmith carpet workshops, founded the Hammersmith Socialist League and from where he designed the Kelmscott Press.