Ivy de Verley

Flossie Ivy Louise Verley (married Bradley, later Davoren; 27 July 187929 December 1963), styled Ivy de Verley, was a Jamaican-born artist active in the United States and United Kingdom.

Early life Flossie Ivy Louise Verley was born on 27 July 1879 in Kingston in the British Colony of Jamaica to Eliza Jane (née Lazerous) and Louis Francis Verley. She was raised in England and France.

Career After her first husband died in 1907, De Verley moved to England, where she studied painting and opened the Scarab Studio at Courtfield Gardens in South Kensington, London. She moved to Hollywood, Los Angeles, in 1920 or 1921 and opened a Scarab Studio there as well. According to de Verley, she developed the style after her husband, Vesey O'Davoren, asked her to create his death mask after he was given little time to live following exposure to poison gas in World War I. Raymond Blathwayt, a journalist, described de Verley's life masks as "striking and at times even weird in the extreme". Her paintings are in the collection of the National Library of New Zealand, and the Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London.

Personal life De Verley at the time of her wedding to Davoren, oval miniature by John Morley, 1916. De Verley married Richard Walter Bradley on 15 November 1905 in Kingston; Bradley died on 14 January in the 1907 Kingston earthquake. As of January 1939, de Verley had lived in Los Angeles, California, for 30 years.