Alice Meredith Williams

As a teenager she was privately tutored in still life and landscape painting by R. A. M. Stevenson, Professor of Fine Arts at Liverpool's University College.

In her early twenties she won a scholarship to attend Liverpool School of Architecture and Fine Art, where she trained under Charles Allen and Robert Anning Bell.

In 1900 she won a travelling scholarship from the City Council and move to Paris where she worked and studied for five years, attending the Académie Colarossi and learning from, among others, Jean Antoine Injalbert, René Prinet, and Emmanuel Frémiet.

Alice moved temporarily back to Liverpool and lived with two of her sisters while seeking commissions and working, for a few months, for Harold Rathbone at the Della Robbia Pottery.

She also created twelve works for the Scottish National War Memorial at Edinburgh Castle (1927), including the figure of St. Michael hovering over the casket containing the names of the dead (carved by the Clow Brothers), and the frieze in the Shrine, designed by her husband Morris.