Louise Rayner
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Louise J. Rayner (June 21, 1832, Matlock Bath - October 8, 1924) was a British watercolor artist. Her parents, Samuel Rayner and Anne Rayner (nee Manser) were both noted artists. Samuel was accepted for exhibition at the Royal Academy when he was just 15. Four of Louise's sisters were artists and one brother they were Nancy, Margaret, Rose, Frances and Richard. Louise's first exhibited work was an oil painting entitled "The Interior of Haddon Chapel", shown at the Royal Academy in 1852.
Her paintings are very detailed and highly picturesque, capturing the "olde worlde" character of British towns and cities. Many of her water colours contained figures going about their daily tasks, including shoppers, street sellers. For these reasons Louise's paintings are very popular today as prints and on jigsaws. Her pictures fetch as much as £30,000. The Grosvenor Museum in Chester possesses twenty-three of Louise Rayner's watercolours, the largest number in any public collection.
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