Clare Ellaline (sometimes Veronica) Hope Leighton was born in London and first studied art Brighton College of Art from 1915. She went on to study at the Slade 1921-23, and at the Central School of Arts and Crafts where she learnt wood-engraving under Noel Rooke. Emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1939 and became a naturalised citizen in 1945. She illustrated a number of books with wood-engravings including those written by herself praising the virtues of the countryside and the people who worked the land. Designed for Steuben glass and Wedgwood plates and for stained glass for churches in New England and for Worcester Cathedral in England. A catalogue raisonne of her prints is yet to be written.