[2] By the late 19th century she was regularly exhibiting as a society portraitist at The Royal Academy[4] and achieved a profile as a painter in the 1890s identified in the modernist Rhythm Group.

In 1912, Wright also painted a full length portrait of Una Dugdale dressed in bright jade with a background of fierce fighting cocks, entitled "The Music Room".

[14] Ethel Wright was also responsible for the portrait which was featured on Una Duval's marriage reform pamphlet "Love, Honour and not Obey".

She would become a hero of the Royal Free Hospital after she died as a result of volunteering as a nurse during World War One.

Her painting of Christabel Pankhurst was donated by Una Duval's descendant to the National Portrait Gallery in 2011.

[5] It was exhibited in 2018 when it was noted that the gallery had previously only had pictures of suffragettes taken by the police as suspicious characters.