Theresa Thornycroft (1853 – July 1947)[1] was an English sculptor and painter.
Her niece was the naval architect Blanche Thornycroft.
[2] A gifted artist, she exhibited her paintings at the Royal Academy of Arts in London before she turned twenty-two.
[4] They had three sons:[4] In 1890, Alfred left Theresa, apparently infatuated with the American writer, Julia Constance Fletcher;[5] he continued to see the children occasionally until his death, aged 33, in 1895, in East Sussex, from tuberculosis.
[6] Theresa continued to live in the village of Matfield in Kent, and was immortalised in the memoirs of her son Siegfried.