Mary Wheelhouse

Mary Vermuyden Wheelhouse (c. 1868 – c. 1947)[a] was a British painter, illustrator, toymaker and suffragette.

Mary Wheelhouse was born in Leeds, Yorkshire.

[b] The Women's International Art Club (WIAC) was founded by students at the Académie Delécluse and Wheelhouse was on the executive committee of the WIAC 1904–06 and 1908–1914.

[1] From 1900 Wheelhouse lived in Chelsea and for a time at the same address as the artist Louise Jacobs with whom she ran a shop, Pomona Toys, in Cheyne Walk, supplying children's toys to Fortnum's, Liberty's and Harrods.

[2] She illustrated a large number of books and children's books, primarily by women writers including George Eliot, Juliana Horatia Ewing, George Sand and Elizabeth Gaskell.

Illustration by Mary Wheelhouse in George Sand 's novel Les Maîtres Sonneurs (The Bagpipers), London, 1908
Frontispiece by Wheelhouse in Juliana Horatia Ewing 's Mary's Meadow , London: G. Bell and Sons, 1915