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Myfanwy Pavelic
Myfanwy Pavelic, CM OBE RCA DFA (April 27, &#; May 7, ) née Spencer, was a portrait artist.
Early life and career
Born in Victoria, British Columbia to an upper-class family, her first interests in fine art came after meeting with Emily Carr on Vancouver Island who later gave a brief series of instruction to Pavelic.
Aside from a few months of study with a Yugoslav artist, she was self-taught as a painter.[1] She studied at Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School in Montreal, Canada as a boarder.[2][3] During the Second World War, she held a one-person exhibition of portraits in Canada and donated the proceeds to the Red Cross.
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She later married a diplomat and had one daughter who suffered a disability.
Pavelic was one of few Canadian artists who had their work shown at the National Portrait Gallery,[4] where her portrait of Yehudi Menuhin[5] was displayed.
She later donated the portrait of her frie