Gertrude des Clayes RCA (1879 – 23 August 1949) was a Scottish-born artist who lived in England and Quebec, Canada.

[1][2] She was born in Aberdeen and studied at the Bushey School of Art and at the Académie Julian in Paris with Tony Robert-Fleury and Jules Lefebvre.

She lived in London from 1906 to 1912 and received a medal from the French Salon in 1909.

[4] One of her portraits appeared in The Fine Arts in Canada (1925) by Newton MacTavish.

[6] Her work is included in the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec,[7] National Gallery of Canada and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.