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Myra E. Luxmore
Title
The Sisters
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Myra Luxmore was a suffragette artist. She was born in Paddington, the only child of John and Jane Luxmore. Her father was a train engineer. The family moved to Wales and then to Newton Abbot following her father’s career.

By 1888 Myra, based in Newton Abbot was exhibiting as an Associate with the Society of Women Artists. In 1891 she moved to London and lived at various addresses before settling in 1905 at her studio, 57 Bedford Gardens. This period saw her exhibiting regularly at the Royal Academy. She is also known to have illustrated a card that was published by the Conservative and Unionist Woman’s Franchise Association.

Kate Parry Frye (1878-1959) in her diary mentions attending women’s suffrage meetings held at Myra Luxmore’s studio. Frye worked as an organiser for the New Constitutional Society for Women’s Suffrage’.
Date 1895 to 1914
Medium watercolour on paper
institution QS:P195,Q7373646
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Miniatures; Fine Art
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Credit line Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
Inscriptions M F Luxmore
Source/Photographer Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
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