Barbara, Daughter of F. Pitcher Esq.

Provenance:
Private Collection, Ontario

Exhibitions:
Art Association of Montreal, Thirty-Ninth Spring Exhibition, 1922
Notes:
Gertrude Des Clayes was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1879, she studied at the Bushey School of Art, England. She later attended the Academie Julian, in Paris. She returned to Britain and lived in London from 1909 to 1912, where she became a member of the National Portrait Society. She moved to Canada with her sister, Berthe, in 1912. Their younger sister, Alice, also an artist, joined them two years later. They settled in Montreal, setting up a studio in Beaver Hall Square, a favourite haunt of artists and architects. She lived and worked in Montreal for the next 24 years, after which time she returned to Britain. She died in London at the age of 70.