The artist exhibited at the Royal Academy 1881-93 and was clearly a Pre-Raphaelite follower. The titles of her exhibited pictures suggest the influence of Rossetti, Holman Hunt and Burne-Jones, and in the early 1880's her address was 17 Red Lion Square, a house previously occupied by Rossetti, W. H. Deverell, Burne-Jones and William Morris. Her red chalk portrait studies, of which another was sold in these Rooms 14 May 1985, lot 190, may owe something to E.R. Hughes, although the present example recalls Burne-Jones's drawing in this medium from the mid 1860's