Watercolourist specialising in birds, real name Ellen Harvey, she was the niece of the Royal Scottish Academician Sir George Harvey. She studied with the animal painter Joseph Denovan Adam and at Eugène Delecluse’s Académie in Montparnasse, Paris. As well as living in Scotland, notably at Stirling, she spent time early in her career in Ireland and Germany. Harvey joined the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists in 1915, also showing at Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, RSA, RSW, SWA, RHA and elsewhere.