Sketch for Nurse and Baby (Head of a Woman) by Beatrice Huntington (1889-1988) shows a nurse with her head dipped slightly, looking off the page. This sketch, similar to another sketch that captured Head of a Nurse in Uniform, shows Huntington's focus on the details and shading of a nurse's face. Sharp, controlled lines of pencil capture the individual eyelashes on the eyes and the way light catches the iris. Repeated lines of pencil also add shadows along the edge of the nose and the depth of the cheeks. The bonnet of the uniform is only outlined here, loosely capturing its shape. 

This sketch was in preparation of Huntington's piece titled Nurse and Baby, 1915 within the Fleming Collection. It shows Huntington's skillset in portraiture and dedication to studying multiple viewpoints of her subjects in preparation for a piece. 

Beatrice Huntington, 1889-1988

Beatrice Huntington was a celebrated Scottish protrait painter in the 1920s and 1930s. She was born in St Andrews and trained in Paris, Munich and London. Huntington was also a celebrated cellist, having studied the cello in Leipzig. She moved to Dundee after WWI to study under the painter William Macdonald whom she later married in 1925. The two artists moved to a flat on Hanover Street, Edinburgh in 1929, spending the rest of their lives living their whilst travelling extensively throughout Europe.