(1896 - 1984)
Agnes Reeve studied art at the Byam Shaw school in London. She was accepted for the Slade School of Art in London but her parents promptly removed her when they found out she was drawing nude male models in class. In the 1920s marriage to a soldier and subsequent travel overseas prevented her from taking up a professional career as an artist. In the 1930s she produced a series of hand-painted woodcuts of London and Oxford. Reeve joined the Postal Censorship (the inspection of mail during war time) in 1939 and after the war served in the Foreign Office until 1959. In the 1960s and 1970s she specialised in large hand-printed linocuts, producing line and wash watercolours of London and Chelsea in particular. She also created a number of Surrey village and rural scenes in oil and watercolour. Reeve always regarded herself as an amateur artist but showed huge dedication and commitment to drawing (and in particular to woodcuts) and continued to work until her death in 1984.