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Cathleen Mann
Cathleen Sabine Mann (31 December 1896 – 9 September 1959), styled the Marchioness of Queensberry from 1926 to 1946, was a British portrait painter and costume designer for film. She was a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
Family and career.
Cathleen Mann was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 31 December 1896 to the Scottish portrait painter Harrington Mann, the second of his three daughters. Her mother was the portraitist and interior director Florence Sabine Pasley
a chartered accountant, and Mary Newton Harrington (1834–1917), a novelist. John's father was also a painter, John Mann (1797-1827).
Mann married the interior decorator Florence Sabine-Pasley (known as Dolly Mann).
Mann had three daughters, who appeared in several of his paintings, including Cathleen Sabine, an artist, who married Francis Douglas, 11th Marquess of Queensberry and then J.R. Follett.
Works.
Mann painted a large number of society portraits, including the following.