Nora England (artist)

England was born in London and was one of at least six children of Edwin Arthur Ward, a portrait painter, and Katherine House.^[1] England studied at the Westminster School of Art and at the Royal College of Art before studying with the society portrait painter Sir James Jebusa Shannon.^[2] Based in London, England worked in a variety of fields. She painted portraits and figure subjects, worked as an interior designer, illustrated books and magazines and also designed dresses and costumes for theatre and film productions.^[1] Among the books England illustrated was a 1923 edition of the ballads of Robert Burns.^[3] Throughout the 1920s she exhibited at the Royal Academy in London and with the Society of Women Artists.^[1][2] She also showed with the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours.^[1][2] England was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1920 and a member of the Society of Women Artists the following year.^[1]

England married Frank De Fontayne England in 1915 and although she lived in London throughout her life, she died in Hampshire in 1970.^[1]