Georgina Martha de L'Aubiniére

The artist was born in Balsall Heath, West Midlands, England. The daughter of English watercolourist John Steeple (1823-1887) she studied art in England for several years. She moved to Paris to continue her studies and met fellow artist Constant de L'Aubinière, whom she married in 1874. In Paris she studied with Corot and Gérome and exhibited at the Cercle des Arts Libéraux in 1882.

After touring France and England, the artist couple travelled to North America in 1882. They lectured, painted and exhibited from coast to coast until 1885-86 when they worked in San Francisco. The couple subsequently moved to Canada and lived in Montreal for several years.

Queen Victoria was an admirer of her work, purchasing two paintings in 1880, and receiving a series of the artist's British Columbian landscape commissioned by the Provincial Legislature in 1887.

De L'Aubiniére was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy.