Anne Finlay

[1] Finlay spent her early years in Edinburgh and attended school in Manor Place in the city, where she studied French.

The group included Dorothy Johnstone, Cecile Walton, Eric Robertson, David Macbeth Sutherland and Adam Bruce Thomson.

The portrait is owned by Aberdeen Art Gallery She was described as attractive and vivacious, with a 'certain disregard for propriety'[2] and posed as a model for several of the artists in the group.

She painted portraits of friends and family and invited nieces and nephews to sit for her as models.

[2] Her personal life included affairs with the painters James McBey and Ernest Proctor and a relationship with Philip Connard.