Margaret Frame

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Margaret Frame (1903–1985) was a Canadian painter known for her portraits. She was born in Oxford, Nova Scotia, and moved with her family to Regina, Saskatchewan in 1906, where she studied with Inglis Sheldon-Williams and James Henderson. From 1922 to 1924 she studied in Boston at the Museum of Fine Arts, where she was encouraged by John Singer Sargent and Philip Leslie Hale. Frame then studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris for four years. Her work began to gain attention: in 1922 she was included in the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts exhibition in Montreal; in 1925 she exhibited two portraits at the British Empire Exhibition in London; and in 1926 she had her first solo show at the Galerie de Marsan in Paris. In 1932 her portraits were shown at the Salon of Women Painters and Sculptors of France.

She married Squadron Leader Hazlitt Seymour Beatty, R.A.F., in 1943. She returned to Canada and opened a studio in Ottawa during World War II. Her subjects included King George V, William Stevens Fielding, and Michael I of Romania. In 1954 she painted Margaret McCurdy, who served as the first lady of Nova Scotia from 1947 to 1952. Margaret Frame died on December 18, 1985, in Nepean, Ontario.