painter and craftworker, was born in London but came to Australia in youth and studied art at the National Gallery School, Melbourne under Fred McCubbin. Later she studied in Paris, exhibited at the Paris Salon and at the Royal Academy, London. Portrait and figure painter, mainly oils. Art Gallery of South Australia [AGSA] originally held her copy of Portrait of Rembrandt (Louvre), gift of the artist 1944 (in 1946 AGSA catalogue but not listed in 1960 edition).
Member of Victorian Artists’ Society c.1896.
At 86 years of age she held exhibition at the Peter Bray Gallery Melbourne, “showing mainly romantic landscapes and noctures reminiscent of the work of David Davies”; see Herald (Melbourne) 17 November 1952; 31 August 1955.
National Gallery of Australia holds a rug n.d., illustrated in Ambrus.
Exhibited Alexandra Chambers April-May 1911; Athenaeum Hall, Melbourne, July 1920; Athenaeum Art Gallery June 1933; Athenaeum Art Gallery March 1935.
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