Sculptor born in West Ham, London. She showed four sculptures at the Royal Academy of Arts summer exhibitions, a bust (of C. Basil Jayne) in 1937, and three equine statuettes in bronze, Kicking Pony and Rearing Pony in 1938 and Buckjumper in 1948. Three statuettes matching these descriptions, along with a fourth of a walking horse, were sold on the ArtParkS website, following their rediscovery in an attic by Ellis’s nephew. Ellis’s bronze group, St George and the Dragon (1938), is in St George’s Hospital, Tooting, south London, and her bronze bust of Percy Still, Founder of the Royal Masonic Hospital, is in the Museum of Freemasonry, Freemason’s Hall, Great Queen Street, London.
Bibliography: Artist Biographies; T. Cavanagh, Public Sculpture of South London, Liverpool, 2007, pp. 325–26, 434; Mapping Sculpture.
Terry Cavanagh, 2007; revised, July 2024