b. 1894, United Kingdom
d. 1966
Patricia Preece (22 January 1894 – 19 May 1966), was an artist who exhibited widely during her lifetime, she was well known in Bloomsbury circles, and enjoyed London and Paris’s artistic and cultural life in 1910s and 1920s, she was described by Augustus John in Vogue as one of the six greatest women artists in England. After her death in 1966 it was discovered that nearly all of the art exhibited and sold under her name was painted by her lifelong partner Dorothy Hepworth.