Gertrude Eleanor Spurr Cutts

Place: Scarborough

Born: 1858

Death: 1941

Biography:

Gertrude Spurr Cutts was a British Canadian artist and paintings restorer. Born at Scarborough, England, she attended the Scarborough School of Art under Albert Strange, and the Lambeth School of Art, London. She immigrated to Toronto in 1890 and continued to paint, joining the Toronto Art Students’ League in 1896. In 1909 she married fellow artist William Malcolm Cutts (1857-1943) and travelled with him to St. Ives (Cornwall), England, where they stayed for three years. They then lived in Toronto from 1912 to 1915 before settling finally in Port Perry, Ont., where she died at the age of 83. Gertrude Spurr Cutts is believed to have worked as a restorer in the 1920s and 1930s.