Barbara Bailey (artist)

Mary Barbara Bailey CRL (born Barbara Vernon Bailey, 28 June 1910 – 4 May 2003) was an English Roman Catholic nun who illustrated the original "Bunnykins" tableware series which was manufactured by the Doulton & Co. factory.

[2] Brought up in a privileged environment, she had a governess and grew up in a stately home.

[1] In 1933 she became a nun in the Canoness Regular of the Lateran order (who follow the Rule of St. Augustine) and took the name "Sister Mary Barbara".

She resided at an enclosed monastery in Sussex and taught French and history at the attached school.

[3] Bailey stopped illustrating and drawing when her teaching duties made her too busy.