Ella Du Cane

Ella Du Cane (1874-1943) was a British artist best known for her watercolors of landscapes and exotic locales.

A 1902 exhibition of water color drawings of the West Indies[6] was followed in 1904 by a show of pictures of Japan.

[7] In 1905 Du Cane was hired by A & C Black to provide illustrations for The Italian Lakes (1905), with descriptions by Richard Bagot.

[9] Building on her success, Du Cane arranged with Black to do a book on Japanese gardens with text written by her sister, Florence, a book released in 1908 as The Flowers and Gardens of Japan.

She continued to live with her mother and sister in Essex, the family moving to an estate called Mountains, on a hillside site near Maldon, after selling Braxted Park in 1919.