About Alice Westlake
Lived 1840 – 1923 (aged 82–83). Alice Westlake was a British painter.
Alice Westlake (1842 –11 August 1923) was an English painter, engraver and activist for women's rights.
The daughter of Sir Thomas Hare, she was born Alice Hare. In 1864, she married legal scholar John Westlake. The couple lived in London and West Cornwall. In 1876, she was elected to the London School Board for Marylebone division; she held that position until 1888. She also served on the London School Board Election Committee and so was able to help other women candidates win seats on the London School Board.
Westlake exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1875 to 1877; Westlake was a member of the Langham Place group.
Her portrait, painted by Lowes Cato Dickinson, is held by University College Hospital in London.
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Who was Alice Westlake?
British painter (1840-1923)
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Alice Westlake was born in 1840 in Brompton.
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Alice Westlake died in 1923 in London.
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Alice Westlake was a painter.
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Alice Westlake was British.
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