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Alice Edith Ross (27 November 1863 - 10 July 1954) was a Scottish painter and illustrator.

Life
Her father William Tait Ross was a writer, the Scots word for a solicitor. He was later made a Procurator fiscal in the Scottish courts. Her father's rising legal career prompted the family move from Glasgow to Edinburgh, the site of the Court of Session. He died on 1 November 1885.

Her mother was Barbara Whyte. William and Barbara married on 13 March 1851 in Old Cumnock, Ayrshire.

Alice Edith Ross was born in Glasgow on 27 November 1863.

At the end of August 1907 she applied to the Edinburgh Lord Provost for a passport to go to Germany and the European continent.

Art
In 1886 she exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy her works: Daffodils, Azaleas and Corn Marigolds.

The only work showing a European setting exhibited at the RSA was her work In The Vegetable Market, Bruges which she exhibited in 1915 and 1916.

In 1937 at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts exhibition she sold A Slack Time.

She sold her work The Empty Saucer directly after the RSA exhibition in 1942.

In 1943 she sold On the Beach at the RSA exhibition.

In 1945 she sold her work A Well Earned Drink at the RSA.

She often illustrated poetry books like the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and also a 1907 edition of Alice in Wonderland, a later edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales and works by Hans Christian Anderson.

Death
She died at her home in 18 Glenorchy Place in Edinburgh on 10 July 1954. The funeral was at Warriston cemetery in Edinburgh on 13 July 1954.

Her estate was reportedly divided thusly: EDINBURGH WOMAN'S BEQUESTS Miss Alice Edith Ross. 18 Glenorchy Terrace, Edinburgh, whose net estate amounted to £33,628, after making private bequests directed that half the residue of her estate be given to the Institute for War Blinded Soldiers, Blackett Place, Edinburgh. The other half is to be shared between the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; the Sick Animals' Dispensary, Edinburgh; Lost and Stray Cats and Dogs Home, Broughton Street; the Glasgow Wild Birds Protection Society — provided none of these anything to do with vivisection; and the Scottish branch of the Red Cross Society.