Printmaker and watercolourist, daughter of the 5th Earl of Annesley, of Castlewellan, County Down, Northern Ireland. She studied in mid-1890s at Frank Calderon’s School of Animal Painting and early in 1920s with Noel Rooke at Central School, being elected to SWE in 1924. She was also a member of Belfast Art Society and showed wood engravings at Redfern Gallery, although arthritis later made workingdifficult. During World War II she left Belfast for New Zealand, returning to England in the early 1950s, settling at Clare, Suffolk. Illustrated several books and wrote a part-finished autobiography, As the Sight is Bent, published 1964. British Museum and Belfast Museum and Art Gallery hold examples.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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