Gladstone, E. A. (Elizabeth Augusta), 1858-1941

Amateur artist Elizabeth Gladstone was born in London. She was the daughter of British chemist John Hall Gladstone, Fullerian Professor at the Royal Institution who was best known for the application of optical phenomena to chemical problems; he also ordered the elements known at the time by atomic weight. She lived in Kensington until her marriage in 1896 to Henri Bach after which she moved to France and was known as Madame Bach Gladstone. Her watercolours, many of which are of Kensington, are signed. E.A.G. She donated 67 paintings to the Kensington Library in 1933. Her older sister Florence was also a water colourist and local historian. Her much younger half-sister Margaret, born in 1870 from her widowed father’s second wife, married Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.