Biography
Grace Wolfe (b. London, England, UK - d. 1970), a descendant of the family of General Wolfe, studied at the Slade School of Fine Art under Henry Tonks and Philip Wilson Steer (1906-8), and at the Atelier Colorossi, Paris. She married the painter John Wheatley in 1912 and went with him to South Africa in 1925 where she became lecturer in fine art at the University of Cape Town. She made sculptures and the ceiling and wall paintings for the New Law Courts, Cape Town. Wolfe returned to London in 1937 and exhibited at the Royal Academy. She was a member of the Royal Water Colour Society, 1952 and Royal Society of Portrait Painters,1955. Her work is held by the Tate Gallery, Paris Salon, galleries in South Africa and Canada as well as the British Museum.