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From the 1880s to the 1920s Traquair worked in a wide range of media, including easel Painting , Embroidery , Manuscript Illumination , book cover tooling, enamelling, as well as mural decoration. She exhibited in Chicago , London , Turin and Saint Louis in the 1890s and 1900s . The decoration of the Catholic Apostolic Church in Mansfield Place in Edinburgh helped to confirm this international recognition.

The third daughter of a Dublin physician, Traquair attended the art school of the Royal Dublin Society and moved to Edinburgh following marriage to the Scottish palaeontologist Ramsay Heatley Traquair ( 18401912 ). The eldest of their three children, also Ramsay Traquair, became Professor and Director of the School of Architecture at McGill University , Montreal , in 1913 .


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  • Dr Elizabeth Cumming, ''Phoebe Anna Traquair'', 2005 , National Galleries of Scotland/National Museums of Scotland



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