Alice Westlake

{{Short description|English painter, engraver and activist for women's rights}}

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Mary née Samson

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Alice Westlake (1842 –11 August 1923) was an English painter, engraver and activist for women's rights.

The daughter of Sir Thomas Hare, she was born Alice Hare. In 1864, she married legal scholar John Westlake. The couple lived in London and West Cornwall.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/menatthebarabio00fostgoog |title=Men-at-the-bar: A Biographical Hand-list of the Members of the Various Inns of Court, Including Her Majesty's Judges, Etc |publisher=Reeves and Turner |page=[https://archive.org/details/menatthebarabio00fostgoog/page/n532 488] |last=Foster |first=Joseph |year=1885}} In 1876, she was elected to the London School Board{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4q0xAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA169 |title=The Western Antiquary; Or, Devon and Cornwall Notebook |page=169 |volume=5 |year=1886}} for Marylebone division; she held that position until 1888.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QCDZ9uOapdUC&pg=PA121 |title=The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in History of Education |page=121 |last=McCulloch |first=Gary |year=2005 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=0415345693}} She also served on the London School Board Election Committee and so was able to help other women candidates win seats on the London School Board.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LO3eBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA65 |title=Women and the Politics of Schooling in Victorian and Edwardian England |page=65 |last=Martin |first=Jane |year=2010 |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=978-0826426369}}

Westlake exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1875 to 1877; she also exhibited at the Paris Salon. Her work is included in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=05C02RhJZCkC&pg=RA1-PA555 |title=Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators |page=555 |volume=1 |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2012 |isbn=978-0199923052}}

She was also active in the suffragist movement. She and her sisters Marian and Katherine signed John Stuart Mill's 1866 women's suffrage petition.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a2EK9P7-ZMsC&pg=PA275 |title=The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928 |page=275 |last=Crawford |first=Elizabeth |year=2003 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=1135434026}}{{Cite web |title=Andrews, Marian [née Hare; pseud. Christopher Hare] (1839–1929), historian and novelist |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-59077 |access-date=2023-12-13 |website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |date=2020 |language=en |doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.59077 |last1=Mitchell |first1=Rosemary |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }} Westlake was a member of the Langham Place group. She was closely involved with Elizabeth Garrett Anderson's hospital for women and served on the central committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YsZdAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT166 |title=Eleanor Marx: A Life |pages=166–167 |last=Holmes |first=Rachel |year=2014 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-1408843239}}

Her portrait, painted by Lowes Cato Dickinson, is held by University College Hospital in London.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9XNe0mLSJQAC&pg=PA300 |title=British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland |pages=300, 817 |last=Wright |first=Christopher |author2=Gordon, Catherine May |year=2006 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=0300117302}}