Clara Klinghoffer

Clara Esther Klinghoffer (18 May 1900 – 18 November 1970) was a British painter and draughtswoman. Born in Austria-Hungary to a Polish-Jewish family and raised in England, she won early acclaim as a student, when critics likened her drawing to that of Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci. She worked chiefly as a portraitist and figure painter, and her sitters included Winston Churchill, Vivien Leigh and Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Klinghoffer exhibited widely in London and, later, in the United States, where she settled and declined to adopt abstract expressionism. Her work is held by public collections including the Tate, the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Ben Uri gallery.