Mary Annie Sloane

Mary Annie Sloane (10 December 1867 – 30 November 1961) was an English artist associated with the Arts and Crafts movement.

She studied at Leicester School of Art and was taught etching and engraving by Hubert von Herkomer in his school at Bushey, and later studied under Francis Job Short at the Royal College of Art.

She lived for many years in the village of Enderby, Leicestershire, where she made a number of etchings of weavers, a traditional craft practised there as well as other subjects.

She was a member and Honorary Secretary of the Women’s Guild of Arts that May Morris founded in 1907.

[2] She was a frequent visitor to William Morris's houses, where she met other members of the Arts and Crafts movement.

Mary A Sloane, taken in 1891 or 1892. By H. Steele and Co. 322 Upper Street, Islington , London.