{{short description|English painter}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox artist | name = Louise Jopling | image = Louise Jopling, by Herbert Rose Barraud.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Photograph of Louise Jopling<br />by [[Herbert Rose Barraud]] | birth_name = Louise Jane Goode | birth_date = {{birth date|1843|11|16|df=y}} | birth_place = Manchester, United Kingdom | death_date = {{death date and age|1933|11|19|1843|11|16|df=y}} | death_place = Chesham Bois, United Kingdom | education = | field = [[Painting]] | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = | spouse = Frank Romer<br />[[Joseph Middleton Jopling]]<br />George W. Rowe | children = Percy Romer<br />Lindsay Millais Jopling }}
[[Image:Louise Jane Jopling (née Goode, later Rowe) by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt.jpg|thumb|''[[Portrait of Louise Jopling]]'' <br />by [[John Everett Millais]], 1879]] [[File:Louise Jopling06.jpg|thumb|"Phyllis"<br />by Louise Jopling]] '''Louise Jane Jopling''' (née '''Goode''', previously '''Romer''' and later '''Rowe''') ([[Manchester]] 16 November 1843 – 19 November 1933) was an English [[Victorian painting|painter of the Victorian era]], and one of the most prominent women artists of her generation.<ref>Deborah Cherry, ''Painting Women: Victorian Women Artists'', London, Routledge, 1993.</ref><ref>Wendy Slatkin, ''The Voices of Women Artists'', Lebanon, IN, Prentice Hall, 1992.</ref>
==Early life== '''Louise Jane Goode''' was born in Manchester, the fifth of the nine children of railway contractor Thomas Smith "T.S." Goode and his wife Frances. She was married at seventeen to civil servant Francis "Frank" Romer. The [[Charlotte de Rothschild|Baroness de Rothschild]], a connection of Romer's, encouraged Louise to pursue and develop her art. In the later 1860s, she studied in Paris<ref name="Phaidon Editors">{{cite book |title=Great Women Artists |year=2019 |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0714878775 |page=205}}</ref> with [[Charles Joshua Chaplin]] and [[Alfred Stevens (painter)|Alfred Stevens]], and first exhibited her work at the [[Salon (Paris)|Salon]]. She entered works into the [[Royal Academy]] shows, 1870–73 (as Louise Romer). After Romer's death in 1872, she married ''[[Vanity Fair (British magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' artist [[Joseph Middleton Jopling]] in 1874, who was best man at [[James Abbott McNeill Whistler|Whistler]]'s wedding to Beatrix Godwin.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/foxweb/huntsearch/DetailedResults.fwx?collection=all&SearchTerm=46317&mdaCode=GLAHA&reqMethod=Link|title=Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery Collections: GLAHA 46317|work=gla.ac.uk|accessdate=5 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304191902/http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/foxweb/huntsearch/DetailedResults.fwx?collection=all&SearchTerm=46317&mdaCode=GLAHA&reqMethod=Link|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Of the children from her first marriage only one son, Percy Romer, survived childhood. She had another son, Lindsay Millais Jopling, by her second marriage; the child was named after his two godfathers [[Coutts Lindsay|Sir Coutts Lindsay]], founder of the Grosvenor Gallery, and [[John Everett Millais]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bailey |first=Alison |title=Louise Jopling 1843-1933 |url=https://amershammuseum.org/history/people/19th-century/louise-jopling/ |access-date=2020-05-25 |website=Amersham Museum |language=en-GB}}</ref>
Jopling achieved fair success in her career: her painting ''Five O'Clock Tea'' was sold for £400 in 1874. Her ''Five Sisters of York'' was shown at the Philadelphia Exposition in 1876, and her ''The Modern Cinderella'' at the Paris Exposition of 1878.<ref>Clara Erskine Clement, ''Women in the Fine Arts from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.'', Charleston, SC, BiblioBazaar LLC, 2007; p. 177.</ref> Yet she was not immune to the gender discrimination of her time: in 1883 she sought a portrait commission for 150 [[Guinea (British coin)|guineas]], but lost it to Sir John Everett Millais, who was paid 1000 guineas for the same project.<ref>Elise Lawton, ''Evelyn Pickering De Morgan and the Allegorical Body'', Madison, NJ, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002; p. 35.</ref> Jopling [[List of women artists exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition|exhibited]] her work at the [[Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)|Palace of Fine Arts]] and [[The Woman's Building (Chicago)|The Woman's Building]] at the 1893 [[World's Columbian Exposition]] in Chicago, Illinois.<ref name="Nichols">{{cite web |last1=Nichols |first1=K. L. |title=Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893| url=http://arcadiasystems.org/academia/cassatt9b.html#jopling|accessdate=29 July 2018}}</ref>
She joined the [[Society of Women Artists]] (1880) and the [[Royal Society of Portrait Painters]] (1891); alongside [[Lucy Kemp-Welch]] she became one of the first women to be admitted to the [[Royal Society of British Artists]] (1901).<ref>''The Gentlewoman and Modern Life'' (London), 22 March 1902.</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Ferguson |first=Donna |date=2024-05-12 |title=Tate Britain acquires first painting by pioneering English female artist overlooked for a century |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/12/pioneering-british-female-artist-louise-jopling-tate-britain |access-date=2024-05-12 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}</ref> During the years of her marriage with Jopling, she became the primary earner of the family. It is said that, "She found this responsibility weighty and stressful, necessitating constant production, regular sales and a continual search for commissions and clients. In 1879, despite her own illness and that of her son Percy, she produced eighteen works."<ref>Cherry, p. 37.</ref>
==Social life== Jopling "painted portraits of titled sitters, wealthy financiers and actresses" and, to operate in this social milieu, she maintained a fashionable lifestyle, with a Chelsea studio at 28 Beaufort Street, designed by [[William Burges]].<ref>Cherry, pp. 89–90.</ref><ref name="vch">{{cite web |title=Settlement and building: Artists and Chelsea Pages 102-106 A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 12, Chelsea. |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol12/pp102-106 |website=British History Online |publisher=Victoria County History, 2004 |access-date=21 December 2022}}</ref> She moved in a social circle that included [[James McNeill Whistler]], [[Oscar Wilde]], [[Kate Perugini]] (née Dickens) and [[Ellen Terry]]. Augustus Dubourg dedicated his 1892 play ''Angelica'' to her. In 1887 the society magazine ''[[The Lady’s World]]'' described her social circle,
<blockquote>One year we have her portrait, magnificently sketched by Millais, adorning the walls of the Grosvenor; next season she figures as the heroine of a ‘society’ novel from the pen of a popular writer. One week we see her salon drawn by Mr. Du Maurier in Punch, with sketches from the life of herself and her friends; the week after she appears under another name as the heroine of one of those quasi-malicious town and country tales which amuse the readers of a society paper…
Over the mantelpiece hangs the portrait, by her old friend [[Sir John Millais]], which made such a sensation at the Grosvenor a year or two ago…Here Mr. James Whistler and Mr. [[Oscar Wilde]] are always to be found, discussing the eternal problems of art; while Sir John Millais, Mr. Sargent and Mr. George Boughton are sworn allies of the subject of our sketch. The Ladies Archibald and Walter Campbell rarely miss a party.<ref>''The Lady’s World'', 1887, pp. 340–2.</ref></blockquote>
It was at an 1883 party at the Joplings' house that Whistler had a famous exchange with [[Oscar Wilde]]. In response to a witticism of Whistler's, Wilde remarked, "How I wish I had said that." Whistler replied, "You will, Oscar, you will."
Like some other women painters ([[Kate Perugini]] and [[Marie Spartali Stillman]] are examples), Jopling also served as a model and subject for other artists. Both Millais and [[James Abbott McNeill Whistler]] painted portraits of her.<ref>Paul Barlow, ''Time Present and Time Past'', London, Ashgate, 2005; pp. 114–15, 180–81.</ref> Whistler praised Millais' picture as "a great work" and "a superb portrait."
==Later life== Joseph Jopling died in 1884 and Louise married lawyer George W. Rowe in 1887 continuing to use Jopling's name professionally. She established her own school of painting for women and, also in 1887, wrote several pieces on the subject of art teaching.<ref>Craig Harrison, ''The Esseance of Art: Victorian Advice on the Practice of Painting'', Aldershot, Ashgate, 1999.</ref> She championed the right of female art students to work directly from live models as the [[Royal Academy]] only allowed its female students to observe male models "carefully draped" in 1893, and her friend Whistler distributed the prizes at her school.
Louise Jopling was a long-term supporter of the [[National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies]], and active in [[Feminism|feminist]] causes. She served as a vice-president of the [[Victorian dress reform#Artistic dress movement|Healthy and Artistic Dress Union]], a short-lived organization promoting dress reform during the 1890s and early 1900s.<ref>Peter Gordon and David Doughan, ''Dictionary of British Women's Organisations, 1825–1890'', London, Routledge, 2001; p. 63.</ref> She published a book of art instruction,<ref>Louise Jopling, ''Hints to Amateurs: A Handbook on Art'', New York, Harper and Brothers, 1891.</ref> and an autobiography, ''Twenty Years of My Life''.<ref>Louise Jopling, ''Twenty Years of My Life, 1867–1887'', London, John Lane, New York, Dodd, Mead, 1925.</ref> She also wrote some poetry and journalism.
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==External links== *{{commons category-inline|Louise Jopling}} *{{wikisource author-inline}} * [http://www.louisejopling.arts.gla.ac.uk Louise Jopling research project] * [http://www.artnet.com/artists/louise-jopling/past-auction-results ArtNet: More works by Jopling.] * {{Art UK bio}} *[https://www.gla.ac.uk/external/collections/#/details?irn=692914&catType=C Papers of Louise Jane Jopling, 1843-1933 (GB 247 ASC 002) Archives & Special Collections, University of Glasgow] {{Authority control}}
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