Katharine Cameron RWS RE (26 February 1874 – 1965) was a Scottish artist, watercolourist, and printmaker, best known for her paintings and etchings of flowers. She was associated with the group of artists known as the Glasgow Girls. Early life and education Born in Hillhead, Glasgow, she was the daughter of the Rev. Robert Cameron and the sister of the artist David Young Cameron. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art, from 1889 to 1893 where she became associated with a small circle of female students who called themselves 'The Immortals'. The group included the sisters Frances and Margaret Macdonald, Janet Aitken, Agnes Raeburn, Jessie Keppie, John Keppie, Herbet McNair, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. During her time at the Glasgow School of Art she contributed illustrations for The Yellow Book and the student publication The Magazine. Around 1902 she travelled to France and enrolled at the Atelier Colarossi, studying under Gustave Courtois. Book Illustrator One of the Glasgow Girls, Cameron worked in the Glasgow Style, which blended Art Nouveau, Celtic Revival, Arts and Crafts movement, and Japonisme aesthetics. Her paintings, with their "bold outlines and vivid colors," lent themselves to the book illustration format, and she contracted with London publishers T. C. and E. C. Jack in 1904 to provide art for books of fairytales. Her interest in embroidered materials, fabrics, and costume comes through in her illustrations, as does the influence of Whistler in her use of symbolism. Cameron also designed the bindings for these works. She illustrated a series of three fairytale books for the Jacks (In Fairyland, The Enchanted Land, and Celtic Tales), which earned majority positive feedback from her artistic contemporaries. Her fourth title for the Jacks, 1909's Legends and Stories of Italy for Children, was part of the publishers' Told to the Children series, for which fellow Scottish artists Phoebe Anna Traquair and Olive Allen Biller also produced illustrations. Starting in 1907, Cameron also illustrated several gift books for T. N. Foulis' Envelope Book series, which showcased her talent for "delicate romantic watercolor illustrations... reminiscent of early work by the Macdonald sisters and Charles Rennie Mackintosh." Her final book for the Jacks was published in 1916, titled Flowers I Love. This title, showcasing unusual and exotic plants, signalled a shift in her artistic interest to her "real love," flower painting. Her last piece of book design was the cover for 1939's Treasure Trove in