Susan Ashworth

Susan Ashworth was a 19th-century British artist and educator, active between 1860 and 1880, who divided her career between London and Edinburgh. Sources vary as to Ashworth's place of birth but agree that after spending time in Edinburgh she lived in London for a time before retiring to Edinburgh.

Biography Ashworth was baptised in 1829 in Salford, Lancashire, the daughter of Thomas Alfred Ashworth, a clerk in holy orders, and his wife Harriet, née Halstead. By the time Susan was eleven, her mother had moved, with Susan and her younger brothers Whitfield, Alfred, Horatio and Howard, to London, possibly as a result of Thomas Ashworth's embrace of the Irvingite doctrine.

Ashworth returned to London in the mid-1870s and continued to paint, exhibiting at the Society of Female Artists until 1880. She died in Hampstead in 1894.