Sketch for Nurse and Baby (Head of a Nurse in Uniform) by Beatrice Huntington (1889-1988) depicts a nurse' head with soft pencil smudging to capture shadows on her face and loose, quick pencil lines to depict her folded bonnet. Sharper and darker pencil lines show Huntington's focus on the details of the mouth and eyes, creating depth in these characteristics with these darker lines. 

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.