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Penelope Beaton (1886 – 12 May 1963) was a Scottish painter of landscapes, harbour scenes and flowers, chiefly in watercolours.[1][2] She was born in Edinburgh, and studied at the Edinburgh College of Art (ECA), graduating in 1917. After a brief stint teaching at Hamilton Academy, where Mary Armour
Scottish landscape, flowers and still-life painter (1902–2000). was one of her pupils, she joined the teaching staff of ECA in 1919, eventually becoming Head of the Junior Department.[2][3] She was elected an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1957.[1]
Penelope exhibited her work widely, including at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Glasgow Institute of Fine Art, and the Royal Scottish Society of painters in Watercolour.[3] Her work during the 1930s was influenced by the Expressionist style of William Gillies, who had joined the ECA’s teaching staff in 1925, but in the following decade she moved towards a more constructed manner. Her later watercolours feature a richly decorated pen-and-ink framework.[4]
“Pene”, as she was fondly known at the ECA, died in Edinburgh on 12 May 1963.[1]
