Annie L. Pressland The Old Garden Battersea Park Old English Garden J Salmon postcard

Annie L. Pressland watercolour of The Old Garden (Old English Garden), in Battersea Park, London, printed by J Salmon.Annie Louisa Pressland (1862-1933), was a painter who studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, and exhibited between 1892 and 1923 at the Society of Women Artists, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, at Birmingham, the London Salon, The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, and Manchester City Art Gallery. A theme of her work, under commissions, was private gardens. She designed posters for the Underground Group in 1913, which are held in the collection of the London Transport Museum. Her floral images have also been adapted for postcards and printed on Royal Worcester porcelain. Professionally she was often referred to as 'Miss Pressland'. Born on 2 July 1862 at Brighton, she died on 23 March 1933 at East Grinstead.