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 L ...

. Born in Aberdeen. She studied at the

Bushey Bushey is a town in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire in the East of England. It has a population of over 25,000 inhabitants. Bushey Heath is a large neighbourhood south east of Bushey on the boundary with the London Borough of Harrow ...

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

Dudley Hardy Dudley Hardy ROI, 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, under whose influence and tutelage he first learned to draw ...

. 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 ( en, National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec), abbreviated as MNBAQ, is an art museum in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The museum is situated in Battlefield Park and is a complex consisting of four bui ...

and the

National Gallery of Canada The National Gallery of Canada (french: Musée des beaux-arts du Canada), located in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, is Canada's national art museum. The museum's building takes up , with of space used for exhibiting art. It is one of the ...

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