Nellie Marcia Lane Foster

Nellie Marcia Lane Foster later Marcia Jarrett, (1897–1983), was a British artist notable as a printmaker, portrait painter and book illustrator.

Biography Foster was born at Seaton in Devon but raised in Manchester before she moved to London. There she studied at the St John's Wood School of Art then at the Royal Academy Schools before enrolling at the Central School of Arts and Crafts where she was taught printmaking by Noel Rooke. At the Central School she was awarded a silver medal for figure painting in 1921. Throughout her career Foster illustrated several dozen books.

Foster exhibited paintings and drawings in group exhibitions throughout her career, notably at the Royal Academy in London between 1952 and 1964 and with the Society of Women Artists from 1923 to 1935. Canadian Fairy Tales, c. 1922, by Cyrus Macmillan The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche, 1923. by Anatole France Little Sea Dogs and Other Tales, 1925, by Anatole France Lets Do It, 1938, by Marcia Lane Foster Dusty's Windmill, 1949, by Kitty Barne Paris Adventure, 1954, by Viola Bayley Scottish Adventure, 1965, by Viola Bayley