Early Life, Family and Training Jessie MacGregor was born in Liverpool to a Scottish father, Alexander, and a mother, Sarah. She grew up in a large household, sharing a home with an older brother and seven younger siblings. Her early years were shaped by the steady presence of her grandfather, Andrew Hunt, a landscape painter who ran a drawing academy in Liverpool. It was here that Jessie MacGregor first learned the fundamentals of drawing, picking up the tools and techniques under his guidance. While her grandfather provided the foundation for her drawing, her mother introduced her to the s…
A chart of Jessie MacGregor's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.