Old Photograph Anna Zinkeisen Scotland

Old photograph of Anna Zinkeisen who was born in Kilcreggan, Scotland. Anna, born 29 August 1901, died 23 September 1976, was a Scottish painter and artist. She was the daughter of Clare Bolton Charles and Victor Zinkeisen, a timber merchant. The family moved to Middlesex, England, in 1909, where Anna and her sister Doris attended the Harrow School of Art before they both won scholarships to the Royal Academy Schools. In 1935, Anna and Doris Zinkeisen were commissioned by John Brown and Company Shipbuilders of Clydebank by Glasgow, to paint murals on the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary. Their work can still be seen, in the Verandah Grill room, on the ship now permanently moored in Long Beach, California, USA. During World War II, Anna worked as a Medical Artist and nursing auxiliary in the Order of St John at St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington. She made pathological drawings of war injuries for the Royal College of Surgeons. Her self-portrait and her painting of plastic surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe are both exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

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