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Ada Shrimpton Ada Matilda Shrimpton (married name Giles, 1856 – 1925) was an English watercolour painter and printmaker. Early lifeShe was born at Old Alresford in 1856, daughter of George Shrimpton and Elizabeth Blake, and educated at Queen’s College, London. For a time she worked as a governess.[1] Art and printmakingIn 1883, she moved to stay with a cousin in Reading, where she studied at the Reading School of Art and gave lectures on artistic anatomy in 1885.[1] She later gained a scholarship to the National Art Training School in South Kensington and studied oil painting under Jean-Paul Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant in Paris. From 1889 she exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Water-Colours, the Society of Women Artists, the Paris Salon, and provincial galleries in England and Australia, showing flower paintings, genre scenes, and portraits.[1][2][3][4]  In 1907 she married printmaker William Giles, whom she had met at the Reading School of Art.[1] Both keen travellers, they married in Venice, and he announced their wedding by producing a print of the couple standing on the seashore.[5][6] She and her husband experimented with applying Japanese woodcut techniques to metal relief printing, a technique seen in Ada’s 1911 print 'Almond Blossoms in the Apennines'.[7][6] She exhibited with the Society of Graver Printers, where she was a member of the council, from 1913 until the year of her death. Her help and financial backing led to the founding of The Original Colour Print Magazine in 1924.[8][6] Death and legacyAda died in 1925. In her will she set up the 'A.M. Shrimpton and William Giles Bequest' to promote the art of colour printmaking.[6] The British Museum used this fund to purchase pieces until 2005, when it was taken over by the Victoria and Albert Museum.[9][10] References
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