Brief Biography-Helen Galloway McNicoll was born in Toronto in 1879. Deaf at age two, she was one of Canada’s first impressionist en plein air painters. Her first formal tuition was at the Art Association of Montreal under William Brymner, followed by the Slade School in London. She visited St Ives and Yorkshire on study trips and worked with the English artist, Dorothea Sharp, sharing a studio with her. They were close friends and travelled Europe together. McNicoll became an associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, where she exhibited her paintings annually when she was in England. She was also a member of the Royal Society of British Artists. Her last years were in Swanage, Dorset, where she died at thirty-six in 1915.