Stansmore Dean Stevenson
| Stansmore Dean Stevenson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Stansmore Richmond Leslie Dean 3 June 1866 Glasgow, Scotland |
| Died | 15 December 1944 (aged 78) Castle Douglas, Scotland |
| Education | Glasgow School of Art |
| Alma mater | Glasgow School of Art; Académie Colarossi |
| Notable work | Meditation, Pensive, Neil Munro |
| Movement | Glasgow Girls |
| Spouse(s) | Robert Macaulay Stevenson |
Stansmore Richmond Leslie Dean Stevenson (3 June 1866 – 15 December 1944) was a Scottish artist known for her oil paintings. She was a member of a group of women artists and designers known as the Glasgow Girls.
Stansmore Richmond Leslie Dean was born in Glasgow on 3 June 1866, the youngest of six children of Jean Leslie and Alexander Davidson Dean (1814–1910). Her father was an artist and engraver from Aberdeen who co-founded the Gilmour and Dean Ltd printing company in 1846. She studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1883 to 1889 where her contemporaries included Bessie MacNicol and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. In 1890 she was the first female student to win the School's Haldane Travelling Scholarship bursary which she used to travel to Paris to study with Gustave Courtois at the Académie Colarossi. Courtois shared a studio with Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret and Dean may have been influenced by his paintings of women in traditional costumes.
She first exhibited her work in 1894 at the Glasgow Institute and exhibited there regularly until 1910. She also exhibited in Paisley, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, at the Royal Scottish Academy and twice at the International Society in London. Her early work may have been influenced by the Society's president James McNeill Whistler. In 1899, her painting Pensive was accepted at the salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. When exhibiting she was sometimes mistakenly thought to be a man due to her given name Stansmore.
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