JOHN GEORGE SOWERBY (WORKING 1876-1914)
PAINTER AND ILLUSTRTOR, JOHN SOWERBY EXHIBITED LANDSCAPES AND COTTAGE GARDENS
AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY, AND OTHER LEADING SOCIETIES AND DEALERS. ORIGINALLY BASED
IN NORTHUMBERLAND, HE MOVED SOUTH IN THE 1890‘S TO COLCHESTER, ESSEX,
AND THEN LIVED VARIOUSLY IN CARLISLE (1901), REIGATE, SURREY (1903), ABINGDON,
BERKSIRE (1904) AND ROSS ON WYE (1910). HE WAS THE FATHER OF MILLICENT SOWERBY,
ALSO A PAINTER AND ILLUSTRATOR, AND HER COLLABORATOR, THE WRITER GITHA SOWERBY.
