Susanna Roope Dockery

Susanna Roope Dockery (1856-1927) was an English watercolour painter who lived both in England and in the city of Porto in Portugal.

[1][4] Apparently lacking financial support from her husband, Susanna Roope Dockery became for a time dependent on her extended family and friends.

Many of her works feature the stone buildings and structures of that area and she also painted scenes of rustic life, of fishing boats, and of the grape harvest.

Initially she sold her paintings to British people in Porto and some are still to be found in the houses of Anglo-Portuguese families.

The favourable reception of her work encouraged her to seek a wider audience and in February 1897 she exhibited "76 Watercolour drawings of North Portugal" at a gallery in London's Mayfair.

Although it is not known for certain, the development of Dockery's painting skills may have been as the result of her visits to her mother's house in Witley in the Surrey Hills to the southwest of London.