Ethel Kirkpatrick

Ethel Alice Kirkpatrick (30 November 1869 – 28 December 1966) was a British painter, printmaker and jeweller. She was a marine and landscape painter, mainly working in oil and watercolour but also producing woodcuts.

Early life and training Ethel Alice Kirkpatrick, was the second daughter of Mary Ann Rosa Kirkpatrick and Thomas Sutton Kirkpatrick. She was born on 30 November 1869 in Clerkenwell, London. Her older sister was Ida Marion Kirkpatrick (1866– 1950), who introduced her to art.

Their father was a professional soldier from a landed family at Coolmine, Dublin, Ireland. and at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, where she learned enamelling and woodcutting techniques. She continued studying at the Académie Julian in Paris. After their father died in 1895 or 1896, a large art studio was built for the sisters behind their family house at Grove Hill, Harrow-on-the Hill, London, which they named "The Gables."

Kirkpatrick produced paintings and woodcut work in colour. She was a member of the Society of Graver Painters and of the Colour Woodcut Society. and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Both the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery and the British Museum also hold examples of Kirkpatrick's prints in their collections. Becalmed Day Dreams Moonrise Rooks Nesting Phyllis

Death Kirkpatrick died on 28 December 1966 in Middlesex, England. Her sister Ida had died sixteen years previously.