May Bridges Lee
May Bridges Lee (1884-1977), later Lady Stott, was an English portrait painter.[1]
Her portraits of civic and other dignitaries are held in several public collections.[1] Her Henry Tyler hangs in the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine, successor to the London Homeopathic Hospital of which he was a benfactor,[2] 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.[3]
She was a full member of the Royal Miniature Society and her Portrait of my Father is exhibited in the society's Diploma Collection.[4][5]
Personal life
Lee was born in 1884 in Lahore, then in India, where her father John Bridges Lee was a barrister in the High Courts of Calcutta, Allahabad and Lahore.[6]
She married engineer and architect Sir Philip Sidney Stott (1858-1937) on 2 January 1936, and was thereafter Lady Stott.[6]
References
- ^ a b "May Bridges Lee (1884-1977)". Art UK. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
- ^ "Henry Tyler". Art UK. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
- ^ "Charles Leonard Arnold (1885–1969), Inventor of the Three Pinned Safety Socket, Chairman and Founder of M. K. Electric Ltd". Art UK. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
- ^ "Diploma Collection". Royal Miniature Society. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
- ^ "Portrait of my Father by Miss May B Lee (Lady Stott)". Diploma Collection Gallery. Royal Miniature Society. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
- ^ a b "Sir Philip Stott Married". Citizen (Gloucester). 3 January 1936. p. 6 – via British Library Newspapers.
External links
- May Bridges Lee at Art UK with 13 images including two self-portraits
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