Offor was born in 1864 in Sydenham, Kent[1] and trained at the Slade School of Art in London,[2] where she became a close friend of Moina Mathers.

Indeed, it may be said that Miss Beatrice Offor is one of the most popular artists of the day, her pictures are eagerly sought after, and publishers vie with one another for the honour of giving her works to the public.

[7] For some time she was based in Chelsea[2] – the Royal Academy catalogues give an address in the King's Road from 1899[8] – but following her second marriage[9] to James Philip Beavan, a fruit importer, in 1907,[7] she moved to Bruce Grove, Tottenham, in North London.

[10] Almost 40 of her paintings are held in the collection of the Bruce Castle Museum, Tottenham; they include portraits of young women, local dignitaries, and a woman believed to be the novelist 'Ouida'.

[6] A centenary exhibition "Sisters, Sirens and Saints: Imagining the Women of Beatrice Offor" at Bruce Castle has been extended until March 2024.