"Girl with a dog waiting at the door" watercolour, image 24 cm x 18 cm, overall 42 x 35 cm. A gifted amateur watercolourist, Ellen Clacy was born at sea en route from Australia. She lived variously in London, Rugby. Warwickshire, Worchester and Liverpool and between 1870 and 1900, exhibited regularly with the Royal Watercolour Society and the Society of British Artists.