May Bridges Lee (1884-1977), later Lady Stott, was an English portrait painter. Lee's portraits of civic and other dignitaries are held in several public collections. Her '' Henry Tyler'' hangs in the

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, successor to the London Homeopathic Hospital of which he was a benfactor, while her work described as '' Charles Leonard Arnold (1885–1969), Inventor of the Three Pinned Safety Socket, Chairman and Founder of M. K. Electric Ltd'' is held by the University of Bristol. In 1972 she donated a collection of her miniatures and full-size works to

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. Lee was a full member of the Royal Miniature Society and her ''Portrait of my Father'' is exhibited in the society's Diploma Collection. She also exhibited at the

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in Liverpool and with both the

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and the Society of Miniaturists, at the

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, the

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and at the

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where she received an ''Honourable Mention'' in 1950. Her portrait subjects included Sir Jeremiah Colman,

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, Lord Cornwallis and the

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Personal life

Lee was born in 1884 in

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, then in India. Her father John Bridges Lee was a barrister in the High Courts of Calcutta, Allahabad and Lahore, and her mother was an artist. Her mother died when she was seven, and she was sent to school in England; her father then had financial troubles which meant she had to leave school aged 15. She started to earn her living by painting, copying old masters onto ivory for snuff box lids, and studied in the evenings at the

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. Lee married engineer and architect Sir

Philip Sidney Stott Sir Philip Sidney Stott, 1st Baronet (20 February 1858 – 31 March 1937), usually known by his full name or as Sidney Stott, was an English architect, civil engineer and surveyor. Early life and career Stott was born in Chadderton, Lancashire, ...

(1858-1937) on 2 January 1936, and was thereafter Lady Stott. She continued to maintain a studio in London after her marriage. The National Portrait Gallery in London holds a photographic portrait of Lee, taken in 1936 by Bassano Ltd.

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*; including two self-portraits {{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, May Bridges 1884 births 1977 deaths 20th-century English painters 20th-century English women artists English women painters English portrait painters People from Lahore