Millie Walters Anson


Minnie Walters Anson was a British portrait painter and created miniatures, as well as technical botanical illustrations, during the 1920s onwards.

Education and life

Her art education was at City and [Guilds of London Art School|Lambeth School of Art], London where she won awards. She lived at 8 Lewin Road and also 22 Kempshot Road, London. She married fellow artist, photographer, Chris Adams who had been commissioned to make paintings for Queen Mary's Doll's House. She died on 25 March 1959.

Selected works

One of her miniatures is held in the archive of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers. Anson's formal portrait of King George V and more relaxed subjects Dutch Bulb Merchant, A Breton Pilot and the semi-formal family portrait of an actress mother and child: Lady Neville Pearson and Sally are in the Russell-Cotes [Art Gallery & Museum|Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum], Bournemouth.
In 2009, her multi-media portrait of Princess Elizabeth as a small child in 1927, was sold at auction, along with a 1925 two-view portrait of a young male actor in costume, along with thirteen detailed botanical studies of orchid flowers.
Anson was the illustrator of 300 plates in the 1934 book 'Colour in The Garden' by M.E. Stebbing.'' She worked on similar books or collections with Gertrude Jekyll and George F Tinley. And she painted postcard images, such as of Priory Mansions Hotel, Bournemouth.
Anson also painted Queen Elizabeth [The Queen Mother|Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon ] as a young woman in 1937.

Collections

Anson's art is sold in private auctions but also examples of her work are held in the