She studied in Edinburgh, first in the School of Art, under Mr. Hodder, and later in the life class of Robert Macgregor. Afterward in Paris under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant.
She never studied miniature painting, but took it up at the request of a patroness who complained that she could find no one who painted miniatures.
Arnold thought it important for miniature painters to do work in a more realistic medium occasionally, and something of a bolder character than can be done in their specialty. This lady gave the artist a number of the Girl"s Own Paper, containing directions for miniature painting, after which Arnold began to work in this specialty. She painted a miniature of Lady Evelyn Cavendish, owned by the Marquis of Lansdowne.
Others of the Earl and Countess of March and Kellie, the first of which belongs to the Royal Scottish Academy.
One of, one of Edith Phillips, the daughter of Lionel Phillips, and several for prominent families in Baltimore and Washington, District of Columbia Her work is seen in the exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
In 1903, she exhibited miniatures of Mission M. L. Fenton, the late Mistress Cameron Corbett, and the Honorary Thomas Erskine, younger son of the Earl of March and Kellie.
Foreign a time, her address was 7 Gloucester Mansions, Harrington Gardens, London, South.W.
