Clara Birnberg (1892[1][2][3] or 1894–1989)[4] was a British artist, illustrator, portraitist and sculptor.

[5] Birnberg, whose father was born in Ternopil in modern Ukraine,[2] moved to England with her family in 1902.

[1] Studying at the Slade School of Fine Art between 1910 and 1912 with Isaac Rosenberg and David Bomberg, Birnberg became the only female member of their 'Whitechapel Boys' circle of artists and poets,[6] and was the only female exhibitor at the 1914 post-Impressionist exhibition "Twentieth Century Art: A Review of Modern Movements" at the Whitechapel Art Gallery[7] in which this circle played a major part.

Clare illustrated Shaw's Buoyant Billions: A Comedy of No Manners in Prose (1949), and the posthumously published My Dear Dorothea: A practical system of Moral education for females Embodied in a letter to a young person Of that sex (1956), written when he was 21.

[8] She also made drawings of Shaw, as well as of Dmitri Shostakovich, Benjamin Britten and Mahatma Gandhi.