Rachael Poole

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Rachael Emily Poole (née 'Mallerson; June 13, 1860, London—April 9, 1937, Oxford) was an historian of portraiture, with a particular focus on miniatures, active in the United Kingdom.[1][2] She played a key part in cataloguing local and university artwork and architecture in Oxford.[3]

Her most important work was the three volume Catalogue of Oxford Portraits (1919-1925).[2] She also wrote An Outline of the History of the De Critz Family of Painters (published by the Walpole Society in 1912), which included important work on Cornelius de Neve.[4][5] She published articles on portraitists active in Tudor England, such as Marcus Gheeraerts (both the Elder and the Younger), who came to England from the Netherlands,[6] as well as seventeenth-century sculptor Edward Pierce.[7]

She played an active, if voluntary, role in the life of Oxford University, and beyond her research efforts, was a founding member of the Bach Choir and served on the council of the Association for Promoting the Education of Women at Oxford.[2]

For her academic work, she was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1926 and received an honorary MA from Oxford in 1932.[2]

She married Oxford historian and archivist Reginald Lane-Poole and was the mother of Austin Lane Poole.[2][3]

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  1. ^ "Poole, Rachael Emily (1860–1937), historian of portraiture | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/51852. Retrieved 20 November 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ a b c d e Malleson, Andrew (2012). Discovering the Family of Miles Malleson 1888 to 1969. Dr. Andrew Malleson. pp. 25–26. ISBN 978-0-9695826-2-5.
  3. ^ a b "'By herself': rediscovering the history of women at St John's College, Oxford". St John's College Library, Oxford. 7 February 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  4. ^ The Weiss Gallery (2010). "Facing the Past: a Catalogue of Early Portraiture, 1530-1780". Issuu. p. 24. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  5. ^ Poole, Rachael; Poole, Reginald Lane (1912). "An Outline of the History of the de Critz Family of Painters". The Volume of the Walpole Society. 2: 45–68. ISSN 0141-0016. JSTOR 41830049.
  6. ^ Poole, Rachael L. (1913). "Marcus Gheeraerts, Father and Son, Painters". The Volume of the Walpole Society. 3: 1–8. ISSN 0141-0016. JSTOR 41829979.
  7. ^ Poole, Rachael; Poole, R. L. (1922). "Edward Pierce, the Sculptor". The Volume of the Walpole Society. 11: 33–45. ISSN 0141-0016. JSTOR 41830319.

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