Edith Grace Wheatley

Edith Grace Wheatley née Wolfe (26 June 1888 – 28 November 1970) was a British artist who had a long career as a painter of figures, flowers, birds and animals and as a sculptor.

[1][2][3] Wheatley was born in London and attended the Slade School of Art there from 1906 to 1908 and then studied at the Académie Colarossi in Paris.

[6] In 1910 the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool purchased her watercolour on ivory The Lady Clarissa and a similar drawing Seated Women, from 1913, is in the Tate collection.

[4] In 1912 she married the painter John Laviers Wheatley and in 1925 the couple moved to South Africa.

These included a sculpture for the city's new law courts plus wall and ceiling paintings for the entrance to the National Gallery.