Anna Lownes

Anna Lownes, was an American painter of still lifes.
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. 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 List of [women artists exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition|exhibited] her work at the Museum of [Science and Industry (Chicago)|Palace of Fine Arts] and The [Woman's Building (Chicago)|The Woman's Building] at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. 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.