Jane Younger

Jane Younger (1863–1955) was a Scottish artist known for her watercolour paintings and embroidery work.

Biography Younger was born in Glasgow into a prosperous family involved in the cotton trade. She also studied in Paris in the studio of Gustave Courtois and at the École des Beaux-Arts. While still a student, she joined the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists. For Blackie and Son, Younger designed bookplates for their specialist Prize Books. She later settled in Edinburgh but also painted on Arran and in France. Younger often painted in watercolours and developed a colourful and bold technique, comparable to pointillism in effect. She exhibited with the Royal Scottish Academy, the Society of Women Artists, the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and the Royal Scottish Watercolour Society. the Cooling Galleries and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool also held exhibitions. She died at Crawford, South Lanarkshire and a gravestone designed by her marks the site of the Younger family tomb in the Glasgow Necropolis.