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South African artist

Allerley Glossop (–) was a South African artist known particularly for her landscape and pastoral scenes.

Biography

Glossop was born Alice Glossop into a middle-class family in Twickenham, in West London, the daughter of George Glossop, the vicar of Twickenham,^[1] and his wife Eliza.

Glossop studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art in London under Charles Holroyd and modelling under George Frampton, and studied under William Mouat Loudan at the Westminster School of Art.^[2] She also worked under Arthur Elsley and Solomon Solomon,^[1] and taught at their short-lived art school, the Sphinx Studio, until it closed in ^[3]

Glossop moved to Cape Colony in , farming and painting first at Klapmuts in the Western Cape, and was an active member of the South African Society of Artists (SASA), serving on the Society's Council between and ^[2] She habitually transgressed the gender roles Allerley Glossop | Art for Sale | Bio & Auction Results MANAQ