Brief Biography-Norah Neilson Gray was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, in 1882. She trained at The Glasgow School of Art, where she taught in 1906. Gray set up a studio in Glasgow in 1910 and had her paintings exhibited in the Royal Academy London, the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, and the Paris Salon. She went to France during World War One and worked as a nurse while painting wartime scenes as much as possible. After settling back in Glasgow when the war was over, Gray continued with portraiture with much success. She was on the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts hanging committee during her last years.