Berthe des Clayes (1877–1968) was a Scots-born artist who lived in England and Canada.
[1] She was born in Aberdeen and studied at the Bushey School of Art with H. Herkomer and at the Académie Julian in Paris with Tony Robert-Fleury and Jules Lefebvre.
Des Clayes was living in Devon in England in 1967 and died there the following year.
Des Clayes won the Jessie Dow Prize twice.
[2] Her work is held in the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec,[7] the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the University of Calgary, the University of British Columbia and Library and Archives Canada.