Mary Ellen Best

Mary Ellen Best (1809 – 1891) was an English artist. Most active in the 1830s, she usually worked in water-colour, commonly painting scenes of domestic life. Best was born in York in 1809, the daughter of doctor Charles Best, (associated with Bootham Park Hospital from 1804-1815) and his wife, Mary Norcliffe Dalton. Best grew up on Little Blake Street near the York Minste...