Two of Pankhurst’s paintings: In a Glasgow Cotton Mill Minding a Pair of Fine Frames, and In a Glasgow Cotton Spinning Mill Changing the Bobbin. Photograph: Sylvia Pankhurst/Tate
Four watercolours of working women by the suffragette and human rights campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst have been acquired by Tate using funds from the billionaire Denise Coates.
The paintings show women at work in the cotton mills of Glasgow and the potteries of Staffordshire, and are part of a series that Pankhurst made as she toured industrial working environments in 1907.
They have been acquired directly from the Pankhurst family for an undisclosed sum. Funds have come from the Denise Coates Foundation, a charity set up by the founder and chief executive of the Stoke-on-Trent-based online betting firm Bet365.
Last month Coates was revealed to be the world’s best-paid female executive, with an annual pay packet of £265m.
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