Harriet Churchyard (is 1836-1927) was born at Melton, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, and was one of the several artist children of the solicitor, artist, and collector Thomas Churchyard. Harriett attended Ipswich School of Art winning prizes in 1868 and later taught art from her home and from the Quaker School in Woodbridge. Mainly working in watercolors she produced pictures of children and animals in rural settings and was very talented at humorous caricatures and cartoons. As "Miss Churchyard" she exhibited at the Ipswich Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition in 1868, her work receiving a Certificate of Merit. She became a member of the Ipswich Fine Art Club 1884-1886; and Harriett was also a regular exhibitor at the Woodbridge Art Exhibition. In 1891 she was living with her three sisters at Seckford Library, Woodbridge, where one of the sisters, Laura, was the librarian. Harriet Churchyard died at 3 Seckford Street--where her father had had his office--Woodbridge on 16 January 1927. [Biography adapted from Suffolk Artists website.]