Amy Eliza Krauss RWA (January 1876 – 26 December 1961) was a British artist known for painting in oils and watercolours, and latterly ceramics.
[1] She is best known for the painting in the Royal Collection in Queen Mary's Dolls' House at Windsor Castle and her close friendship with Frances Hodgkins.
Whilst in Paris she met many of the artists who had influenced her including the Scottish Colourists Samuel Peploe, John Duncan Fergusson and Leslie Hunter.
[4] Krauss returned to Bristol at the outbreak of the First World War and worked as a draftswoman for the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company and from 1915 -1918 was their Principle Women's Welfare Officer.
[8] Krauss painting was influenced by her friend Frances Hodgkins and the Scottish Colourists, and her work has been compared to that of Leslie Hunter.