Ethel Wright (painter)
Ethel Wright was a British painter. She has paintings in UK national collections.Life
Wright was born in London and there is a portrait of her by Hayman Seleg Mendelssohn. She achieved a profile as a painter in the 1890s identified in the modernist Rhythm Group. She achieved some success as a painter but she was identified as a great woman artist. She became a supporter of the suffragettes.
A portrait she made of Christabel Pankhurst was bought by the suffragette Una Duval after it was exhibited by the Women's Social and Political Union's art exhibition in 1909. The Women's Exhibition hosted by the Women's Social and Political Union and funded by Clara Mordan was held at the Prince's Ice Rink in Knightsbridge in May 1909. It was donated by her descendant to the National Portrait Gallery in 2011. It was exhibited in 2018 when it was noted that the gallery had previously only had pictures of suffragettes taken by the police as suspicious characters.
