Red Hair in Art: Laura Coombs Hills

Laura Coombs Hills (1859 - 1952) was an American artist and illustrator who specialised in watercolour and pastel still life paintings, especially of flowers, and miniature portrait paintings on ivory. She became the first miniature painter elected to the Society of American Artists, and she was a founder of the American Society of Miniature Painters. She also worked as a designer and illustrated children's books for authors such as Kate Douglas Wiggin and Anna M. Pratt.

Portrait of Alice Crecy

Image from 1897

Dream Roses calendar

Fire Opal (Grace Mutell)

Margaret Curzon Hale

Portrait miniature of

Charlotte Spaulding Albright

The Pink Flower (Viola Nilson)