Ann Charlotte Bartholomew

Ann Charlotte Bartholomew (1800-1862) was an English painter who specialised in flowers and miniatures, and also wrote literary and dramatic works. Born in Loddon, Norfolk, she was the niece of John Thomas, bishop of Rochester. She is sometimes given as Anne-Charlotte, while British records usually list her as Ann Charlotte.

In 1827 she married the composer Walter Turnbull, who died in 1838. She exhibited at the British Institution, the Royal Academy and the Society of British Artists, and was a founding member of the Society of Female Artists, formed after she petitioned the Royal Academy to open its schools to women. In 1840 she published Songs of Azrael and other poems under the name Mrs. Turnbull, and the same year she became the second wife of the flower painter Valentine Bartholomew.

Her main work was miniatures for brooches and jewellery, though she also painted still lifes of fruit and flowers; the British Museum holds one watercolour of this kind, Study of a Garden Poppy. As a playwright she saw The Ring, or the Farmer's Daughter appear in 1845, and the farce It's Only My Aunt staged at the Marylebone Theatre in 1849. She last exhibited in 1857 and died on 18 August 1862. She is buried beside Valentine Bartholomew in Highgate Cemetery.