Eleanor Allen Moore

[2] From 1902 to 1907 she studied drawing and painting at the Glasgow School of Art, where she was a contemporary of Norah Neilson Gray.

[3] During World War I Moore served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse at Craigleith Hospital in Edinburgh.

[1] In 1922, Moore married Dr Robert Cecil Robertson and she gave birth to their daughter, Ailsa, the following year.

Moore and her daughter were evacuated from Shanghai to Hong Kong during the Sino-Japanese War in 1937, and returned to Scotland soon after, though she had stopped painting.

[1] Moore and her husband were the subject of an exhibition in 1997 which was held at the Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, which holds several of her works including a large three quarter length self-portrait.

Glasgow School of Art, where Moore studied drawing and painting