Annie Louisa Pressland Primrose Flowers in a Basket

Annie Louise Pressland (1862–1933): Floral Watercolours

Annie Louise Pressland (1862–1933) trained at the Slade School of Art. She exhibited widely, between 1892 and 1923, at the Society of Women Artists, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, the London Salon, The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, and Manchester City Art Gallery.

A specialist in floral subjects, her paintings were adapted for postcards and printed on Royal Worcester porcelain. In 1913 she designed posters for the Underground Group, which are held in the collection of the London Transport Museum.

Pressland also painted numerous garden subjects and received commissions to paint private gardens, for which she travelled the country. In 1928 she was commissioned by the socialite Frances Evelyn Maynard (1861–1938), Countess of Warwick, to produce a series of ten paintings of Easton Lodge at Little Easton, Essex.