Laura Barbara Sutherland Clunas

1863-1936 Scottish

Exhibited British painter trained by Herkomer

Laura Barbara Sutherland Clunas trained under Sir Hubert von Herkomer at his art school in Bushey, whose alumni included Arnesby Brown, Algernon Talmage and Lucy Kemp-Welch among others. It was also where she met her future husband, the painter Harry Fidler. They lived for a time at Teffont Magna, Wiltshire, before ultimately settling at the White House, Stoke, near Andover. She exhibited extensively during her lifetime at the Royal Academy, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Society of Women Artists.