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

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in Paris with Tony Robert-Fleury and Jules Lefebvre. From 1906 to 1912, she lived in London, she emigrated to Montreal in 1912 where she lived until 1919. In 1920, she moved to

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in England. From 1931 to 1951, she lived in Montreal. Des Clayes was living in Devon in England in 1967 and died there the following year. She worked in oil, watercolour and

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. Des Clayes won the Jessie Dow Prize twice. She illustrated the books ''Here and There in Montreal and the Island of Montreal'' (1931) by Charles W. Stokes and ''Acadia (Nova Scotia)'' by the Dominion Atlantic Railway. She showed with the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts from 1912 to 1947. Her younger sisters

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(1890-1968) and Gertrude (1879-1949) were also artists. Her work is held in the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the University of Calgary, the University of British Columbia and

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Des Clayes, Berthe 1877 births 1967 deaths Artists from Aberdeen Artists from Montreal English landscape painters English watercolourists English women painters Pastel artists People from Chorleywood Sibling artists Women watercolorists 20th-century English women 20th-century English people British expatriates in Canada