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Ruby Pickering (29 May 1873 - 21 January 1916) was a Scottish painter. She is known as part of the Glasgow Girls group of artists, and was a member of The Immortals.

Life
Robina Elinor Graham Pickering, known as Ruby, was born on 29 May 1873.

Her father was Robert Young Pickering (13 March 1849 - 30 January 1932). Her mother was Ellen Caldwell Anderson (born c. 1847). They had married on 15 December 1868 in Anderston, Glasgow.

Ruby was the grand daughter of the owner of the first department store in Glasgow, the John Anderson Royal Polytechnic Store; and it was given to her father Robert Young Pickering when her grandfather John Anderson retired in 1891.

Through the Department sore, John Anderson became very wealthy. Ruby grew up in 3 Park Gardens the home of her grandfather John Anderson (born c. 1818) and grandmother Robina, known as Ina, (born c. 1821). Her parents were also staying with the Andersons.

Ruby was considered enough of a celebrity to asked to name a yacht, albeit that of her grandfather's, from the Ramage and Ferguson shipyard in Leith. The yacht was named The Lady Ina.

By the age of 17 in 1891 she was already an art student. She was staying at 20 Montgomerie Quadrant, with her parents.

She married John Johnson King Pickering, an engineer's agent, (1880 - 2 April 1914) in Dumfries in 1903.

They had a son Christopher Robert Pickering (born 10 October 1904).

Art
She studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1889 to 1893.

She became a member of The Immortals, an early 'Glasgow Girl' group that predated the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists.

In 1893 she exhibited the watercolour Pansies at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.

She was a member of the Scottish Society of Art Workers formed in 1898.

Death
She died in the Queen Mary nursing home in Edinburgh on 21 January 1916. She died of cancer of the colon. It had also caused an intestinal obstruction. They tried to operate on this, but the operation failed and Pickering also developed septicaemia.