Anna Lownes

{{Short description|American painter (1842–1910)}}

{{infobox artist

|name=Anna Lownes

|birth_date={{birth date|1842|12|19}}

|birth_place=Delaware County, Pennsylvania, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1910|1|4|1842|12|19}}

|education=Philadelphia School of Design for Women
Académie Delécluse

|occupation=Painter

|style=Still life

}}

File:Anna Lownes-Study of Apples c 1884-1889.jpg

Anna Lownes (December 19, 1842 – January 4, 1910), (active 1884–1905) was an American painter of still lifes.{{cite web |title=Anna Lownes |url=http://www.askart.com/artist/Anna_Lownes/106175/Anna_Lownes.aspx |website=AskArt |accessdate=12 January 2019}}

She was born in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, to Phineas Lownes and Emily Lewis, a niece of manufacturer and philanthropist John Price Crozer. Lownes studied at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and at the Académie Delécluse in Paris.{{cite book |last1=Heller |first1=Jules |last2=Heller |first2=Nancy G. |title=North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781135638825 |page=347 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AYxmAgAAQBAJ&q=Anna+Lownes+artist&pg=PA347 |language=en}} She was a pupil of Milne Ramsey. She exhibited work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and National Academy of Design; from 1885 to 1887 catalogs gave her address as Media, Pennsylvania, but in later years she was said to have moved to 1708 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

Lownes exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.{{cite web |last1=Nichols |first1=K. L. |title=Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893| url=http://arcadiasystems.org/academia/cassatt6f.html#lownes| accessdate=13 August 2018}} A Study of Apples dated to before 1890 was included in the inaugural exhibition of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, American Women Artists 1830-1930, in 1987.{{cite book|author1=Eleanor Tufts|author2=National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.)|author3=International Exhibitions Foundation|title=American women artists, 1830-1930|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EvxPAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=International Exhibitions Foundation for the National Museum of Women in the Arts|isbn=978-0-940979-01-7}}