Doris Clare Zinkeisen (31 July 1898 – 3 Jan. 1991); Scottish theatrical stage and costume designer, painter, commercial artist and writer. She was best known for her work in theatrical design. Shen was born in Clynder House in Rosneath, Argyll, Scotland. Her parents were Welsh-born Clare Bolton-Charles and Victor Zinkeisen, a timber merchant and amateur artist from Glasgow.... She had a younger sister, Anna Zinkeisen who also became an artist. The family left Scotland and moved to Pinner, near Harrow in 1909. Zinkeisen attended the Harrow School of Art for 4 years and won a scholarship to the Royal Academy Schools in 1917 together with her sister Anna. Zinkeisen shared a studio in London with her sister during the 1920s and '30s from where she embarked on her career as a painter, commercial artist and theatrical designer. Zinkeisen's realist style made her popular as a portraitist and she became a well-known society painter. The subject matter of her paintings, society portraiture, equestrian portraiture and scenes from the parks of London and Paris reflect the lifestyle of the upper class at the time. She also worked widely in other media as an illustrator and commercial artist including producing advertising posters for several British railway companies, the London Underground and murals for the RMS Queen Mary. Zinkeisen produced a number of posters for London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), Southern Railway (SR) and London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) in the 1930s. The posters often featured historical themes... Zinkeisen exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1929, at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in London and in Paris and the United States.... Zinkeisen was a successful stage and costume designer for plays and films. Despite her success as a painter and commercial artist she was best known as a theatrical designer.... During World War II, Zinkeisen joined the St John Ambulance Brigade... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Zinkeisen) undefined

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