Myfanwy pavelic biography sample

Myfanwy Pavelic, CM OBE RCA DFA (April 27, 1916 – May 7, 2007) née Spencer, was a portrait artist.

Early life and career

Born in Victoria, British Columbia to an upper-class family, her first interests in fine art came after meeting with Emily Carr on Vancouver Island who later gave a brief series of instruction to Pavelic.

Aside from a few months of study with a Yugoslav artist, she was self-taught as a painter.^[1] She studied at Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School in Montreal, Canada as a boarder.^[2][3] During the Second World War, she held a one-person exhibition of portraits in Canada and donated the proceeds to the Red Cross.

She later married a diplomat and had one daughter who suffered a disability.

Pavelic was one of few Canadian artists who had their work shown at the National Portrait Gallery,^[4] where her portrait of Yehudi Menuhin^[5] was displayed. She later donated the p