Margaret Isabel Dovaston (5 March 1884 – 24 December 1954) was a British artist who became particularly well known for her oil paintings of historical interior English genre scenes, often depicting groups of figures in eighteenth century dress.

By 1911, she and the family had moved to 14 Madeley Road, Ealing, from where Margaret continued her education at the South Kensington School of Art studying under its founder Arthur Stockdale Cope RA.

[6] She finished her formal art education by winning a scholarship, enabling her to spend five years attending the Royal Academy Schools (1903-1908).

As well as book cover design, she contributed illustrations to Deeds that Thrill the Empire and Hutchison's Story of the British Nation.

In 1915 she produced a night-time watercolour of CSM Reid leading reserve troops across the crater-strewn ground of Hill 60 to the front line, with shells exploding all around them.

Typically her oil paintings illustrated elaborate English architectural interiors used as settings for groups of finely-drawn eighteenth, or early nineteenth century figures in detailed Georgian costume.

This was gained from many hours spent in London museums and art galleries, and her own making of an extensive collection of antique clothing and period household items.

[25][26] During the War she painted a picture depicting Willoughby Garner, the Mayor of Ealing, showing King George VI and Queen Elizabeth the bomb damage inflicted locally on Perivale in 1940.

A few months before her death there was a studio sale/exhibition of 12 oil paintings and 7 watercolours at Foyles Art Gallery in London, along with works by Fortunino Matania and Raymond Sheppard.