Mabel Gear (British, b. 1900)

Pastel on colored paper, signed.

Mabel Gear was a painter of birds and animals. She was born at the Ashby Rectory in Surrey, 1900. She studied at Colchester School of Art and under Septimus Power at Bushey. Gear exhibied at the Royal Academy; Royal Institute of Oil Painters; Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours; the Royal Society of British Artists, and abroad. She married Ivor I.J. Symes.

--From The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940; and Water's, Dictionary of British Artists: Working 1900-1950.