Heda Armour (1914–1996), later Heda Munro and Heda Napper, was a British painter and etcher.

Biography

Hedvig (Heda) Sophie Armour was born on 23 May 1914 in Recife, Brazil to Stewart and Gabrielle Matilda (née Crosse) Armour. After a private education Armour trained at the Guildford School of Art from 1930 to 1933 before spending six years studying at the Royal Academy Schools where her teachers included Walter Thomas Monnington and Sir Walter Westley Russell. Armour went on to become a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy in London and elsewhere in Britain. She lived at Cranleigh in Surrey and the British Museum holds an example of her work.

Heda Armour

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1914 births

20th-century British painters

20th-century British women artists

Alumni of the University for the Creative Arts

Alumni of the Royal Academy Schools

Year of death missing

British expatriates in Brazil

Heda Armour