Allerley Glossop

Allerley Glossop (1870–1955) was a South African artist known particularly for her landscape and pastoral scenes.

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 habitually transgressed the gender roles assigned to a single white woman in colonial South Africa by dressing in men's clothing (she was known to her close friends as "Joe"), wearing a pith helmet, smoking a pipe and venturing alone into rural areas to paint.

[2] Glossop was a friend of the artist Madge Tennent, who portrayed her as "Jill of all trades, and master of most of them... who, if she was busy, would slip a delicately beaded white chiffon dinner dress over her riding trousers and high leather boots, to arrive at a dinner party with a riding crop instead of a bag.

"[5] Tennent states that after the First World War Glossop bartered her paintings for butter, flour and eggs in order to provide her farm hands with extra food; and describes her as a "spartan", "self-possessed by nature and training", who "loved freedom... a slim intrepid woman, with her wide human interests, and zest for work... poised squarely in the path of life, like a bright eagle ready to fly the wind against any wrong done to the young, weak or innocent".