Ruby Winifred Levick [also known as Ruby Winifred Bailey; and as Mrs Gervase Bailey] was born in Llandruff, Glamorgan, Wales on 11 September 1871 and, between c.1893 and 1897, studied at the National Art Training School [from 1897 known as the Royal College of Art] in South Kensington, London, where she was taught by Edouard Lantéri (1848-1917) and awarded two gold medals, a British Institution scholarship for modelling in 1896, and the Princess of Wales scholarship in 1897. She subsequently worked primarily as a sculptor. She exhibited at the Royal Academy in London from 1894 to 1919. Her work was also shown at the Ridley Art Club and International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers in London; Leeds City Art Gallery; Bristol Academy; and at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.