Painter and miniaturist, especially of portraits, born in Lahore, India. After education in England she studied at Lambeth School of Art. The architect, surveyor and engineer Sir Philip Stott’s first wife Hannah having died in 1935, Lee married him shortly before he died in 1937, becoming Lady Stott. Stott’s home was Stanton Court, Broadway, but Lee continued to maintain a studio in London. Her sitters included her barrister father John Bridges Lee, Sir Jeremiah Colman, Lords Burnham and Cornwallis and The Earl Manvers. She was a member of RMS, SWA, and SM, also showing at RSA, Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and elsewhere.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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