Ellen Gertrude Cohen

Ellen Gertrude Cohen was a British painter and illustrator.

Biography

Cohen was born in 1860 in Marylebone to Barnet Soloman Cohen, a merchant, and Eliza Myers Cohen. She attended the Slade School of Art and the Royal Academy of London. She also studied in Paris under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens.
She exhibited her work at the Royal Academy, Royal Institute of Painters in Water and Oil Colors, and the Paris Salon.
Cohen exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
Cohn created illustrations for a variety of British publications including The Strand Magazine.
Cohen died in Rome in 1946, where she was living at a Franciscan convent.