Juliet Howson was born in Toronto in 1873. She was educated at the Ontario School of Art*, and also studied in Paris and The Netherlands. At the Academie Julian*, she studied under William Bouguereau and Gabriel Ferrier.

She painted oil and water-colour landscapes, flower studies, and portraits of notable women.

Her work was exhibited at the Toronto Art Gallery (1891), through the Ontario Society of Artists* (1891-1893 and 1900), and at the Royal Canadian Academy (1891). 

At the Ontario Society of Artists exhibition in 1900, she exhibited a china tea service (four pieces), as well as two vases (daffodils, dandelions), and three plates (one of yellow roses, one of redcurrants, and one of raspberries).

She later moved to the United States, where she exhibited under her married name, Juliet Burdoin.

Studied: Ontario Art School; Academie Julian, with Bougereau, Ferrier; also studied in Holland and Paris, France

Member: Dayton Art Club; Cincinnati Woman's Art Club; Gloucester Art Association; Rockport Art Association.

Work: in private collections, U.S. and Canada.

Sources: Who Was Who 1959; Artists of the Rockport Art Association (1956).

Submitted by:  Robert Savage, Art Historian, Wellesley Collection and artist