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Miss Cumberlege, National Gallery of Art, DC

Miss Gertrude Frances Balmain Cumberlege was born in Woburn, Bedfordshire in 1866, the daughter of Marion Balmain (b. ca 1827) and the Reverend Samuel Francis Cumberlege (1811-1899). In 1881 he was rector of St Paul, Covent Garden, and was probably attending a Church Congress in the Lake District when this drawing was made in Grasmere. Gertrude Cumberlege died on 20 February 1945 in London.