Phoebe Anna Traquair


Phoebe Anna Traquair was an Irishborn artist, who achieved international recognition for her role in the Arts and Crafts movement in Scotland, as an illustrator, painter and embroiderer. Her works included largescale murals, embroidery, enamel jewellery and book illuminations. In 1920 she became the first woman elected to the Royal Scottish Academy.

Phoebe Traquair was born Phoebe Anna Moss onMay 1852 in Kilternan, County Dublin. Her parents were surgeon William Moss and Teresa Moss. Phoebe was the sixth of their seven children. Traquair studied art at the School of Design of the Royal Dublin Society between 1869 and 1872. She married the Scottish palaeontologist Ramsay Heatley Traquair onJune 1873. The couple moved to Edinburgh in Spring 1874. Some of her work was palaeontological drawings related to her husbands research. Their children were Ramsay, Henry Moss and Hilda.

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