She was born in Bath England, and spent her early childhood
there and came to London to study art under Legros at the Slade School. Her
specialty was portrait painting, and her red chalk heads were quite remarkable,
of which several were in academy; also portraits in the style of Dowman.
Although she had painted many beautiful landscapes she practically abandomed
this side of her art when she specialized particularly in miniatures. She came
into the movement [the Baha’i Faith] in the summer of 1899 and went to ‘Akka
soon after.Miss Ethel J. Rosenberg was one of the pioneers of the Baha’i Faith in the western world in the early days of the Cause. ‘Abdu’l-Baha knew and loved so well this devoted servant of His and had often paid priceless tribute by voice and pen concerning her devotion and untiring labours.
Known and loved by all the members of the Holy family in Haifa and Akka where she had visited for months at a time in the earlier stages of the outpouring of the Baha’i spirit from the East to Europe and America (January 1901 and 1905-6), Miss Rosenberg played no small part in the adaptation of the Baha’i Message to the western mind. Ever modest and unassuming the full value of her work in this capacity seldom appeared on the surface but those who knew her well and were in close touch with her activities were and are well aware of the great assistance she gave to the Master and how valuable was the help she rendered in the translation and transcribing of some of the outstanding works through which the truths of the Baha’i Message were made known to the peoples of the western hemisphere.
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