Ursula Vivian McCannell (11 June 1923 – 16 January 2015) was a British painter known for depicting the Spanish Civil War in her early years.
[1] Her father, William Otway McCannell, was a painter and teacher[2] and her mother, Winifred Cooper, painted miniatures.
When she was four years old the family moved to Farnham in Surrey where her father was appointed principal of the local School of Art.
[6] Their family home remained in Farnham, although McCannell made yearly visits to Spain and, from 1973, to County Cork for painting.
[6] At that time she was sixteen and it was her first major exhibition and she was elected a member of the Women's International Art Club.