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Agnes Violet Neish ( Anderson; 21 January 1912 - 24 July 2008) was a Scottish painter. She is one of the McGlashan-Anderson artistic dynasty of the Glasgow School of Art.

Life
Agnes Violet Anderson was born in Hexham on 21 January 1912.

Her father was William Smith Anderson (21 November 1878 - 22 August 1929); her mother was Daisy Agnes McGlashan (5 June 1879 - 17 August 1968). They had married on 28 September 1909 in Glasgow.

She had a sister Daisy McGlashan Anderson. Both her parents and elder sister were artists, as was her aunt Violet Meikle McGlashan(3 December 1872 - 18 December 1905); they all went to the Glasgow School of Art. Agnes Violet continued in that tradition.

She married John McMath Neish (1910 - 1997) in 1938, in Blythswood, Glasgow.

Art
Anderson attended the Glasgow School of Art from 1929 to 1935. She took drawing and painting; and was in the Drama society and the Kinecraft society.

Her sketch, signed before she married as Agnes Violet Anderson, of The Hay Shed has been in auction.

Death
She died in an Erskine home in Scotland on 24 July 2008.

Works
The Glasgow School of Art hold her Botany notebook in their archive.