Elsie Vera Cole

Cole was born in Braintree in Essex to the congregational minister William Cole and his wife Ellen née Holmes.^[2] Cole went to school in Gravesend in Kent and studied at the Norwich School of Art from 1908 to 1910.^[3] She went on to study at the Chelmsford School of Art, completing her studies in 1919.^[3] Cole then returned to the Norwich School of Art to take a teaching position at and continued to teach there until 1941.^[4] Living in Norwich she produced A Sketch book of Norwich which was published in 1920.^[5] Cole travelled and painted widely in Britain and Europe.^[4] She exhibited with the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, the Society of Women Artists, the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol and with the Norwich Art Circle.^[3] From 1933 she was also a regular exhibitor with the Ipswich Art Club.^[2] Cole died at Diss in Norfolk in 1967.^[2]

• Works by Elsie Vera Cole at Project Gutenberg