Alice des Clayes

{{short description|Scottish artist}}

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| name = Alice des Clayes

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1890|12|22|df=y}}

| birth_place = Aberdeen, Scotland

| death_date = {{Death year and age|1968|1890}}

| death_place = London, England

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| nationality = Scottish

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| education = Bushey School of Art with Lucy Kemp Welch; at Newlyn; and at Ambleteuse with Dudley Hardy

| known_for = Painter of animals

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Alice des Clayes (1890–1968) was a Scottish painter, sister to Berthe des Clayes.{{cite book |last1=Bradfield |first1=Helen |title=Art Gallery of Ontario: the Canadian Collection |date=1970 |publisher=McGraw Hill |location=Toronto |isbn=0070925046|url=https://search.library.utoronto.ca/search?N=0&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Nu=p_work_normalized&Np=1&Ntt=Helen%20Bradfield%2C%20canadian%20collection%20%2C%20art%20gallery%20of%20ontario&Ntk=Anywhere |accessdate=2021-03-29}} Born in Aberdeen. She studied at the Bushey School of Art with Lucy Kemp Welch, who specialized in painting horses; at Newlyn and at Ambleteuse with Dudley Hardy. She emigrated to Montreal Quebec in 1914.{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y_gMAQAAMAAJ&q=aberdeen+alice+des+clayes | title=Les Cahiers des Dix| author1=Dix| year=2008}} In 1920 she was made a non-resident member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.{{cite book |last1=McMann |first1=Evelyn |title=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts |date=1981 |publisher=University of Toronto Press|location=Toronto|url= http://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/aMcMann/amcmann/1%2C2%2C11%2CB/frameset&FF=amcmann+evelyn+de+r+evelyn+de+rostaing+1913+1999&8%2C%2C10|access-date=2022-11-21}} Alice des Clayes returned to England in 1938.{{Cite web | url=https://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=101 |title = Canadian Women Artists History Initiative : Artist Database : Artists : DES CLAYES, Alice}}

Her work is included in the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec{{Cite web | url=https://collections.mnbaq.org/fr/artiste/600000105 |title = Des Clayes, Alice}} and the National Gallery of Canada.{{cite web |title=Alice des Clayes |url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/alice-des-clayes |website=www.gallery.ca |publisher=National Gallery of Canada |access-date=21 November 2022}}