Minnie Cormack

Minnie Cormack, whose maiden name was Everett, was born in Cork in 1862. She was an engraver and painter who moved to London and flourished at the end of the nineteenth and at the start of the twentieth century, principally making mezzotints after the paintings of famous British portraitists and after her own pictures. She exhibited her work at the Royal Academy from 1892 until 1906 and, although by no means the only woman to have made a living as an engraver, she was still an unusual and recognisable figure of the London art world.