Sir George Clausen RA RWS RI ROI (18 April 1852 – 22 November 1944) was a British artist working in oil and watercolour, etching, mezzotint, drypoint and occasionally lithographs.

[1][2] George Clausen was born at 8 William Street[3] in the Regents Park district of London on 18 April 1852, the son of a decorative artist of Danish descent and a Scottish mother.

He then worked in the studio of Edwin Long RA and subsequently in Paris under Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury at the Académie Julian.

[5][7] The Yale Center for British Art holds Clausen's Schoolgirls (1880),[8] an urban scene, which it featured in its exhibit called "Britain in the World: 1860-Now.

[13][14][15][16][17] Clausen also contributed six lithographs on the theme Making Guns for the Government published print portfolio Britain's Efforts and Ideals.