Glasgow Society of Lady Artists

[2] The names of the founding members are somewhat under discussion, but they are thought to include: first president Georgina Mossman Greenlees, Mrs Joseph Agnew, Elizabeth Patrick, Margaret M Campbell, Henrietta Robertson, treasurer Frieda Rohl, Jane Nisbet, Helen Salmon, Jane Cowan Wyper, Margaret Macdonald (not Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh), Isabella Ure and Mrs Provan.

The Glasgow Art Club was based close by on Bath Street, but they only admitted men (and would continue to do so until the 1980s).

By 1897 the partnership of George Henry Walton and Fred Rowntree had designed and constructed a gallery for the club's fourteenth annual exhibition.

In 1907 a decoration committee commissioned Charles Rennie Mackintosh to carry out certain interior work and the striking black pedimented neo-classical front door.

Also in 1907, the society celebrated their 25th anniversary with an exhibition opened by Sir D. Y. Cameron in October that year.