Painter in oil, pastel draughtsman, illustrator and teacher, born in Cricklewood, full name Helen Wilson. She moved to Scotland when she was six weeks old, studying at Glasgow School of Art under David Forrester Wilson, then on a scholarship at Royal Academy Schools. While there, in the mid-1920s, she won a silver medal for drawing and the Arthur Hacker Prize for a portrait. Later subjects who sat for her included the writer Compton Mackenzie and the psychologist Havelock Ellis; the composer Jean Sibelius declined, claiming that he was too old. After her studies Wilson became an illustrator, working in the museum at the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, producing intricate drawings of insects. Married a doctor, Maurice Rosenfield, who worked at Manor House Hospital.