Artist born in Salford, Lancashire, who painted as a child, taking private lessons. Aged 12 she won a scholarship and then a studentship to Royal School of Art, Salford, 1928–32, and was encouraged by the director of the Salford Art Gallery, Albert Frape. Had her first solo show there in 1937 and it bought her work. Le Breton was urged on by L S Lowry and like him believed in “painting the people about you”. Showed with MAFA of which she was made a member in 1952, RCamA and Lancashire Artists Group and had several solo shows at Medici Gallery in the mid-1970s. A limited edition of her picture The Old Street Market was produced by Mellor Hall Fine Art Reproductions. Le Breton claimed to be the first artist to show and discuss her work on experimental colour television.