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Buddig Anwyli Pughe (1857-1939)
Buddig Anwyli Pughe was a professional Welsh artist who travelled extensively in Europe, including Paris, Rome and Venice. She was born and bred in Aberdovey in the County of Merionethshire (now Gwynedd).

Buddig Anwyli Pughe was the daughter of the antiquarian scholar and physician John Pughe, also known as Ioan ab Hu Feddyg (1814-1874) and  Catherine Samuel (m.1862).

Her paintings include a number of portraits, including those depicting her father John Pughe (also known as Ioan ab Hu Feddyg), Dr TF Roberts, TF Roberts' father, TF Roberts' mother and Robert Parry. She painted 'The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford on Avon' in 1905 and Figure Study in 1895. Her work also includes the watercolour 'Monk playing an oboe in a chapel interior' (1886).

Buddig Anwyli Pughe studied at Liverpool School of Art, Heatherley's in London and Collarosi's in Paris. She first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1886 and worked in Paris, Rome and Venice. She was a member of the Liverpool Academy of Arts, the Liverpool Sketch Club and the Irish Water Colour Society. She returned to Aberdovey around 1905 where she continued to paint landscapes and portraits. She died in Liverpool in 1939.

Buddig Anwyli Pughe's landscape work includes A Sunlit Village Church.

Despite painting hundreds of paintings as a professional artist, few of her paintings appear in public galleries. One was recorded in the National Library of Wales in 1991 - The Old Lacemaker. Some of her paintings appeared in the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool for over 50 years but only one remains there. Dolgelley Fair was exhibited in the National Academy in 1924.