Biography
Katie Knewstub (1907-2008) was the daughter of Frederick Oliver Knewstub, whose brother John founded the Chenil Galleries, where in 1923 William Roberts had his first one-man show. Katie and the elder of her two brothers, Fred (also painted by William Roberts) lived with her uncle, John Knewstub and his wife, Helen, after their mother (née Florence Nelson Fulcher) died in 1915, their father having died the previous year.