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Allerley Glossop (b.1870 Twickenham, England d. 1955 Lion's River)
Allerley Glossop studied at the Slade School of Art, the Central and Westminster Schools of Art and G. F. Cook's School, London. She taught art at the Sphinx Studio, London, until its closure in 1900. In that year she came to South Africa and lived at Wellington and Johannesburg before settling on a farm at Lion's River in 1925, where she built a studio. She frequently traveled between South Africa and England. Her extensive travels in Southern Africa were made by ox wagon.
Allerley Glossop was an eccentric, causing a sensation in South Africa by wearing a sola topi, riding britches and leggings. She is best known as a painter and graphic artist of landscapes, including figures, animals and habitations. In painting she worked in various media, including gouache.