Margaret Backhouse (née Holden) (1818–1896) was a successful British portrait and genre painter during the 19th century.
Although she was born near Birmingham, Backhouse spent most of her life in London where she showed works on a regular basis at the Royal Academy, the Society of Women Artists and at the Royal Society of British Artists.
Backhouse attended a school in Calais before taking art classes in Paris for a year.
[2] When the family relocated to Britain they lived in Cheltenham for a year before Backhouse continued her art education at Sass's Academy in London.
[5] In April 1845 she married the artist Henry Fleetwood Backhouse and began to raise a family while continuing to paint.