Bethia Mary Clarke was born in Blackheath, London, England on 7 June 1867 and studied at Westminster School of Art in London, and in Paris and Étaples, France. She subsequently worked as an interior, portrait and landscape painter. She was a regular exhibitor at the Society of Women Artists in London from 1893 to 1953. She also exhibited at at Baillie Gallery, International Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Society of British Artists Royal Institute of Oil Painters, New Gallery, Pastel Society, Women's International Art Club, and Ridley Art Club in London; Royal Birmingham Society of Artists; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Manchester Academy of Fine Arts; Walker Art Gallery; and at the Paris Salon where she was awarded an Honorary Mention.
Her address was given as 51 Upperton Gardens, Eastbourne, Sussex in 1893 and 1894; 8 Kensington Studios, Kelso Place, London in 1895; High Combe, Old Charlton, Kent in 1896 and 1897; 9 Holland Park Mansions, Kensington, London in 1898 and 1901; 14 Ladbroke Grove, Kensington, London in 1901; 16 Addison Road North, Notting Hill, London in 1911; and 44, Addison Avenue, Kensington, London in 1921 and 1953. She died in Kensington, London in 1959.
Text source: Art History Research net (AHR net)
Text source: Art History Research net (AHR net)
