Anna Katrina Zinkeisen was born in Kilcreggan, Dunbartonshire, Scotland on 28 August 1901. She studied at the Royal Academy Schools, London, where she won several medals, following which she worked as a painter, sculptor, muralist, illustrator and commercial artist.

She illustrated several books, including a number of medical books; designed several book jackets (including for novels by Barbara Cartland and Doris Leslie); designed Christmas cards for the Royal Society of Arts; and painted murals for hospitals and for the Cunard liners ‘Queen Mary’ and ‘Queen Elizabeth’; and designed ceramic plaques for Wedgwood which were awarded a silver medal in the Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes in Paris in 1925.

Her work as a commercial artist included advertisements for Shell-Mex and 4 posters and 16 panel posters for London Underground in 1933-34.

Among notable people whose portraits she painted were Prince Philip, Lord Beaverbrook, and Sir Archibald Hector McIndoe

She exhibited frequently at the Royal Academy in London from 1921 to 1964. She also exhibited at Beaux Gallery, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Royal Society of British Artists, Redfern Gallery, Royal Miniature Society, Royal Institute of Oil Painters. Society of Women Artists, and Institute of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers in London; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin; and at the Royal Scoittish Academy in Edinburgh. She was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) in 1929. a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) in 1940.

Her sister, Doris Clare Zinkeisen (1898-1901), was also an artist.

Anna Katrina Zinkeisen's address was given as The Elms, Oakhill Avenue, Pinner, Middlesex in 1921; 10 Yeoman's Row, London in 1922; 16 Yeoman's Row, London in 1923; 8 St. Andrew's Place, Regent's Park, London in 1924 and 1940; Earlywood Edge, Ascot, Berkshire in 1941; St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London in 1943; and 14 Alexander Place, London in 1956 and 1962. She died in London on 23 September 1976.

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