Anna Zinkeisen British, 1901-1976

Anna Katrina Zinkeisen (29 August 1901 – 23 September 1976) was a Scottish painter and artist.

Zinkeisen was born in Kilcreggan, Scotland, the daughter of Clare Bolton-Charles and Victor Zinkeisen, a shipper, manufacturer and yarn merchant.^[1] The family moved to Middlesex in England in 1909. Anna and her sister Doris were privately educated at home before they attended the Harrow School of Art from where they both won scholarships to the Royal Academy Schools.^[2] Anna studied sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools between 1916 and 1921, winning silver and bronze medals, and first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1919.^[3] She received a commission for some plaques from the Wedgwood company and although these designs were awarded a silver medal at the Exposition des Art Decoratifs in Paris in 1925, Zinkeisen decided to specialise in portrait painting and mural work.

In 1935, Anna and Doris Zinkeisen were commissioned by the Clydebank shipbuilders John Brown and Company to paint murals on the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary.^[4] Their work can still be seen, in the Verandah Grill room, on the ship now permanently moored in Long Beach, California.^[5] At this time Anna was also working on a number of illustrations for books and magazine covers as well as designing posters, such as Merry-go-round and Motor Cycle and Cycle Show, Olympia 5–10 November 1935 for London Transport.^[6][7] In 1940 both sisters also contributed murals to the liner RMS Queen Elizabeth. 

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