Frances CRAWSHAW (1876-1968) was born in Manchester and grew up at Sewerby on the Yorkshire coast where her father, Robert Fisher, was a vicar. She attended the Scarborough School of Art & the Westminster School of Art in London and also studied art in Milan, Paris and Edinburgh. During her life, she lived at Whitby in North Yorkshire, Edinburgh, Droitwich and latterly at Newton Abbot in Devon. She painted flowers and
landscapes in both oil and watercolours and during the 1930s exhibited regularly with the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Scottish Watercolour Society and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. She also exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, with the New English Art Club, the Women's International Art Club and was elected an associate member of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists.