Alice des Clayes (1890–1968) was a Scottish painter, sister to

Berthe des Clayes Berthe des Clayes (1877–1968) was a Scots-born artist who lived in England and Canada. She was born in Aberdeen and studied at the Bushey School of Art with H. Herkomer and at the Académie Julian in Paris with Tony Robert-Fleury and Jules Le ...

. Born in Aberdeen. She studied at the

Bushey Bushey is a town in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire in the East of England. It had a population of 25,328 in the 2011 census, rising to 28,416 in the 2021 census, an increase of 12.19%. This makes Bushey the second most populated town ...

School of Art with Lucy Kemp Welch, who specialized in painting horses; at Newlyn and at Ambleteuse with

Dudley Hardy Dudley Hardy Royal Institute of Oil Painters, ROI Royal Society of British Artists, RBA (15 January 1867 – 11 August 1922) was an English painter and illustrator. Life and work Hardy was the eldest son of the marine painter Thomas Bush Hardy ...

. She emigrated to Montreal Quebec in 1914. In 1920 she was made a non-resident member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Alice des Clayes returned to England in 1938. Her work is included in the collections of the

Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (), abbreviated as MNBAQ, is an art museum in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The museum is located in National Battlefields Park and is a complex of four buildings. Three of them were purpose-built for ...

and the

National Gallery of Canada The National Gallery of Canada (), located in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, is Canada's National museums of Canada, national art museum. The museum's building takes up , with of space used for exhibiting art. It is one of the List of large ...

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1890 births 1968 deaths 20th-century Scottish women artists Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts {{Canada-artist-stub