Violet Dreschfeld

Dreschfeld was born and grew up in the Chorlton suburb of Manchester, one of three children to Selina and Julius Dreschfeld, a German-born physician, who became a Professor of Pathology.^[1][2] Violet Dreschfeld studied sculpture in London, where she was based in the 1910s. She was active throughout that decade producing portrait busts, particularly of female subjects.^[3][4] From 1929 she began exhibiting at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris.^[5]