About Helena Maguire
Helena Maguire was born in London in 1860, the second daughter of Thomas Herbert Maguire
She painted children and animals in water-colour, mostly for children’s books, and exhibited at the Institute of Painters in Water-colours, and in the Royal Academy from 1881 to 1892.
She lived from 1860 to 1909. Helena Maguire was born into a family of artists, she was strongly influenced by William Henry Hunt, Foster, and the Pre-Raphaelites.
