F.R. Forrester, who worked under the pseudonym 'Dimple Dot', was a member of a painting group instructed by Louise Jopling (1843–1933), one of the most prominent women artists of Victorian London. Jopling inhabited the most advanced artistic circles of her time and was one of the first women to be admitted to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1901. She joined the Society of Women Artists and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, was patronised by the de Rothschild banking family and included James McNeill Whistler and John Everett Millais among her confidantes. Jopling was a long-term supporter of the National Union of Women's Suffrage and championed the rights of female artists—including the right of students to work directly from live models at the Royal Academy. She established her own school of painting for women and, also in 1887, wrote several pieces on the subject of art teaching.
