English artist Edith Maud Susanna Scannell (1852–1940) lived and had her studio in West Kensington, London. She studied for two years under M. Jacquand in Paris, in Florence, Rome and Pisa, under Bellucci, Bompiani and Lanfredini, and for a short time at the Slade School of Art in London.
She exhibited widely in London, including at the Royal Academy, as well as elsewhere in England, in Italy and in Belgium. Her favoured subjects were children, which it is said she painted “con amore”, and she was known for a charming freshness and naivety in her painting style.
Edith Scannell found much work as both illustrator for The Art Amateur magazine, and also as an illustrator of children's book in England and the USA.
