Jessie Ogsten Douglas
Whilst it is now possible to trace only a handful of works by Jessie Douglas, these few would indicate that she was a gifted watercolourist, in a similar vein to Rose Barton and Mildred Anne Butler. Tantalisingly little is known however, about her background, other than that she lived at 1 Windsor Park Terrace in Belfast and was a regular exhibitor with the Watercolour Society of Ireland from 1892 to 1922. www.whytes.ie The titles of her exhibited works reveal she painted regularly in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as Donegal and Connemara. Her works were hung by the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, the Society of Women Artists, the Belfast Art Society (of which she was an honorary member), the RHA and the Royal Scottish Academy among others. www.whytes.ie
