Violet Keene (1893  May 10, 1987) was the daughter of portrait photographer Minna Keene(5 April 1861  November 1943)  and she continued on photographing major figures.
Violet Keene (1893  May 10, 1987) was an English-born Canadian photographer. The daughter of portrait photographer Minna Keene and Caleb Keene, she was born in Bath, Somerset, England, and first learned how to use a camera at her mother's studio in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She photographed major figures of her time including Aldous Huxley, George Bernard Shaw and Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, Canadian governor general. Minna Keene, nee Bergman, (5 April 1861  November 1943) was a German-born, self-taught Canadian pictorial portrait photographer, considered "hugely successful". 
