Myra Louise Bunce

Myra Louise Bunce (1854–1919) was an English designer and painter associated with the Arts and Crafts movement and the Pre-Raphelites.

[1][2] It was Birmingham School of Art that provided the springboard for Bunce's career as a designer; unusually it encouraged both men and women to design and make objects in a variety of materials and thus led to her interest in metalworking.

For both of these she created the hand beaten framing to hold the painted panels.

[6][7] The use of metal rather than moulded gesso is one of the features that distinguishes Bunce's work from that of her contemporaries.

[1] Amongst her other work is the frame that holds Kate Bunce's painting The Keepsake.