Susan Ashworth was a 19th-century British artist and educator, active between 1860 and 1880, who divided her career between London and Edinburgh.
[4] By the time Susan was eleven, her mother had moved, with Susan and her younger brothers Whitfield, Alfred, Horatio and Howard, to London, possibly as a result of Thomas Ashworth's embrace of the Irvingite doctrine.
[4] By the age of twenty-one Susan had been enrolled in classes for women at the Government School of Design in London for some years and had won prizes within the school's examinations, and exhibited designs for fabrics at the 1851 International Exhibition.
[2] She also exhibited at least two pieces with the Royal Society of British Artists at their Suffolk Street gallery in London between 1874 and 1880.
[3][5] Ashworth returned to London in the mid-1870s and continued to paint, exhibiting at the Society of Female Artists until 1880.