Painter and draughtsman, especially of portraits and figures, who was married to the sculptor Allan Gairdner Wyon. She studied at Dublin Municipal School of Art, in the studio of Sir Arthur Cope and at the Royal Academy Schools. Exhibited RHA, Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, UA, St Ives Society of Artists and in Newlyn, Cornwall, where she spent much of her life. Latterly lived at Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire. The church there held her portrait of the vicar. Survived her husband, who died in 1962.

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


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