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Elizabeth Scott-Moore - Double-Sided Original Mid 20th Century Watercolour. There is a second watercolour, of Cookham, Berkshire, on the reverse. Monogrammed and Inscribed. In fine condition.Elizabeth Scott-Moore 1904-1993 was born in Dartford, Kent, the daughter of Henry Brier, inventor and engineer and his wife Victoria Mary, illustrator of children’s books. Elizabeth began painting under her mother’s instruction, winning several medals from the Royal Drawing Society in her teens. She was educated at Gravesend School of Art where she trained under Edmund Sullivan, and the Southampton Row School of Arts and Craft. At college, she was friends with Graham Sutherland and Kathleen Barry. She married John Scott-Moore in 1937; he was 20 years her senior and died in 1947. She followed her mother working as a children’s book illustrator, for Blackies, Nelsons and Oxford University Press amongst others until 1947. Her work was influenced by her brother, Ronald Brier, and artist friend Alfred Hayward. She chiefly worked in watercolour, oil, gouache, pastel and graphite. She showed regularly at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition from 1948. She held the Queen’s Diploma and a Gold Medal from the Paris Salon of 1962. She was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours in 1959. She left the institute in 1966, on a matter of principle over votes for women in its affairs, and was nominated for the Royal Watercolour Society by Cosmo Clark RA. She became a full Member in 1975 and, in 1986, the first woman Trustee of the society. She was an honorary member if the New English Art Club. Her work may be seen in the Museum of Transport, the Guildhall, the Royal Collection and Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries.
