Anna Hornby

Anna Hornby (6 April 1914 – 1996) was an English painter, calligrapher and member of the New English Art Club.

Life and work Anna Hornby was educated at the independent Westonbirt School, Gloucestershire. Fairbank was a founding member of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators in 1921, and was also involved in the foundation of the Society for Italic Handwriting in 1952.

Hornby was also a member of the Art Workers Guild and was elected member of the New English Art Club in 1971. She exhibited widely with 13 pictures at the Royal Academy. In addition she exhibited with the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, The Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Royal Society of British Artists.

Anna Hornby died in 1996, bequeathing paintings by Peter Greenham and Francis Ernest Jackson to the Ashmolean Museum of Art, Oxford. Many of her papers and letters, including correspondence with Alfred John Fairbank are held in the archives of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford and the National Art Library, London.

Exhibitions Pictures exhibited at the Royal Academy, London 1949 – Chantmarle 1959 – Cecily 1960 – Farm near Urbino 1960 – Mary 1961 – Evening Tuscany 1961 – Sally 1961 – Alfred Fairbank Esq 1963 – Le Buis: Morning 1967 – Washing Line 1968 – Crocuses 1968 – Italian Haystacks 1969 – College Dustbins 1970 – Certaldo in the Rain