Clara Billing

Clara Ellen Billing (1881–August 1963) was a British artist known for her paintings and sculptures.

Biography Billing was born and grew up in Blackpool in the north-west of England to Emily Clare and George Billing, who went on to become a respected surgeon in Manchester. Clara Billing studied at the Manchester School of Art before undertaking further studies in London at the Royal College of Art and then in Paris. Between 1913 and 1957, Billing was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy in London and, in the 1920s and 1930s, showed a total of eighteen works with the Society of Women Artists. Billing was a member of the Artists' Suffrage League and produced posters and cards in support of the campaign for women's voting rights.

After living in London for many years in 1925 Billing moved to Blewbury near Didcot and in 1929 married the sculptor Sydney Langford Jones. Her sister, May Billing, (1883–1939), was also an artist active in the Society of Women Artists.