Ursula Tyrwhitt was born in Nazeing, Essex and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1893 to 1894 and also in 1911 and 1912.
[1] She also studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and in Rome at the British Academy.
[1][2] Examples of her work are displayed in The National Library of Wales, the Tate Gallery and in the British Council collection.
The Ashmolean Museum held a retrospective exhibition in 1973 entitled Ursula Tyrwhitt, Oxford painter and collector 1872–1966.
[5] She lived in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife and also in Oxford, where she died in 1966.