Jane Hurlstone
Jane Hurlstone | |
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| Born | Jane Coral c. 1817 Middlesex, England |
| Died | (aged 41) Chelsea, Middlesex, England |
Burial place | Norwood Cemetery |
| Other name | Jane Coral Hurlstone[1] |
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| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | William Hurlstone (grandson) |
Jane Hurlstone (née Coral; c. 1817 – 2 October 1858) was a British social reformer and painter. She supported animal welfare, vegetarianism, Owenism, and Italian nationalism. Historian James Gregory identifies her as a possible founding member of the RSPCA. She and her husband, Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, hosted meetings of early vegetarian societies at their home in Chester Street, Belgrave Square. Hurlstone exhibited watercolours and oil paintings at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal Society of British Artists.
Biography
[edit]Hurlstone was born Jane Coral in about 1817 in Middlesex.[a] She married the painter Frederick Yeates Hurlstone at St Margaret's, Westminster, on 5 November 1836.[5][6] They had two sons, one of whom later became an artist.[5] One of her grandsons was the composer William Hurlstone.[7]
Historian James Gregory identifies Hurlstone as a possible founding member of the RSPCA.[1][2][8] He also describes her as active in several London-based vegetarian organisations. The Hurlstones' home at Chester Street, Belgrave Square, hosted meetings of early vegetarian societies, and both served on the committee of the London Vegetarian Association.[1] Hurlstone also supported Owenism and Italian nationalism.[8]
Hurlstone exhibited watercolours and portraits at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Royal Society of British Artists. Between 1850 and 1856, she showed only oil paintings of imaginative subjects at the latter.[5] Her exhibited works included subjects connected with her social and political interests. In 1848, she exhibited John Bullism, accompanied by lines from Richard Monckton Milnes on the maltreatment of a horse. In 1850, under the motto "Look on this picture, and on this", she exhibited The Clubhouse and the Workhouse. In 1852, she exhibited The Women of England in the Nineteenth Century, and in 1853 One of the Friends of Italy.[1]
Hurlstone died in Chelsea, Middlesex, on 2 October 1858, aged 41.[5][9][10] She was buried at Norwood Cemetery on 7 October.[9]
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[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 Gregory, James Richard Thomas Elliott (May 2002). "Biographical Index of British Vegetarians and Food Reformers of the Victorian Era". The Vegetarian Movement in Britain c.1840–1901: A Study of Its Development, Personnel and Wider Connections (PDF) (PhD thesis). Vol. 2. University of Southampton. pp. 62–63. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
- 1 2 Gregory, James R. T. E. (June 2013). "James 'Shepherd' Smith (1801–1857) and the 'Spiritualists': Attitudes to mysticism and physical puritanism in The Shepherd and The Family Herald". Academia.edu. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
- ↑ United Kingdom census (1841). "Jane Hurlston". FamilySearch. Retrieved 4 April 2026. (registration required)
- ↑ United Kingdom census (1851). "Jane Hurlstone". FamilySearch. Retrieved 4 April 2026. (registration required)
- 1 2 3 4 Graves, Robert Edmund (1891). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. pp. 317–318.
- ↑ "Jane Coral". St Margaret's Church, Westminster, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1934. Ancestry.com. Retrieved 4 April 2026.
- ↑ "Artists Illustrating Boys' Fashions: Frederick Yeates Hurlstone (England, 1800-69)". Historical Boys' Clothing. Retrieved 4 April 2026.
- 1 2 Gregory, James (2007). Of Victorians and Vegetarians: The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth-century Britain. London: Tauris Academic Studies. p. 162. ISBN 978-1-4356-1584-7. OCLC 184749981.
- 1 2 "Jane Hurlstone". London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813–2003. Ancestry.com. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
- ↑ "Deaths Dec 1858: Hurlstone, Jane". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
- 1810s births
- 1858 deaths
- 19th-century British painters
- 19th-century British women painters
- British activists
- British animal welfare workers
- British charity and campaign group workers
- British organisation founders
- British social reformers
- British socialists
- British vegetarianism activists
- British watercolourists
- British women activists
- British women founders
- British women watercolourists
- Burials at West Norwood Cemetery
- Founders of animal welfare organizations
- Italian nationalists
- People from Belgravia
- People from Middlesex (before 1889)
- Owenites
- RSPCA workers
