Artist     Margaret Fisher Prout
Title      The Curved Couch
Date      1960's
object    Painting
Media    oil
Size       74.5 x 59cm
Ref          236

Purchased in the 109th RWA Annual Exhibition in 1961

Other websites featuring this artist's work
www.tate.org.uk/
www.gac.culture.gov.uk/

The Curved Couch
Margaret Fisher Prout was a painter of land and townscapes, flowers and figurative works in an impressionist style. She was born in 1875 in Chelsea, London, the daughter of Mark Fisher, the painter. Fisher Prout studied under him and then later at the Slade School between 1894-7. She married John Alexander Prout in 1908 and unusually for the time, kept her name along with his - possibly as a nod to her friends in the suffragette movement..

Margaret Fisher Prout exhibited regularly at the N.E.A.C. from 1906, and became a full member in 1925. She also exhibited at the R.A. from 1921 onward, at the A.R.A. in 1948; and at the R.W.S. in 1945.

She taught drawing at the Hammersmith School of Arts and Crafts during the pre-war period of 1914. After the First World War, she had her first successful solo exhibition at the Beaux Arts Gallery, London in 1922.

Margaret Fisher Prout lived at St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex, where she died in December 1963 at the age of 88..

Further Reading:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II

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