Jane Hurlstone (née Coral; c. 1817 – 2 October 1858) was a Scottish watercolour artist and vegetarianism activist. She has been identified as a potential founding member of the RSPCA.[1][2] Hurlstone was a supporter of Owenism, animal welfare and Italian nationalism.[3]

Biography

Jane Coral was born c. 1817,[4] in Scotland.[3] She married Frederick Yeates Hurlstone, a fellow artist, in 1836;[5][6] they had two sons, one of whom was also an artist.[5]

Hurlstone exhibited some watercolour drawings and portraits at the Royal Academy and the Society of British Artists; from 1850 to 1856 she contributed to the latter exhibition only fancy subjects in oil-colours.[5]

Hurlstone died aged 41 in London,[4] on 2 October 1858.[5] She was buried in Norwood Cemetery.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Gregory, James R.T.E. (June 2013). "James "Shepherd" Smith (1801–1857) and the "Spiritualists": Attitudes to mysticism and physical puritanism in "The Shepherd" and "The Family Herald"". Academia.edu. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  2. ↑ Gregory, James Richard Thomas Elliott (2002). "Biographical Index of British Vegetarians and Food reformers of the Victorian Era". The Vegetarian Movement in Britain c.1840–1901: A Study of Its Development, Personnel and Wider Connections (PDF). Vol. 2. University of Southampton. pp. 62–63. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
  3. 1 2 Gregory, James (2007). Of Victorians and Vegetarians: The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth-century Britain. London: Tauris Academic Studies. p. 162. ISBN 978-1-4356-1584-7. OCLC 184749981.
  4. 1 2 3 London Metropolitan Archives; "London, England, UK" ; London Church of England Parish Registers; Reference Number: Dw/T/0920
  5. 1 2 3 4 Graves, Robert Edmund (1891). "Hurlstone, Frederick Yeates" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. pp. 317–318.
  6. ↑ The Register, and Magazine of Biography: A Record of Births, Marriages, Deaths, and Other Genealogical and Personal Occurrences. Vol. 1–2. Nichols and sons. 1869. p. 92.



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