Background
Offor was born in 1864 in Sydenham, Kent and trained at the Slade School of Art in London, where she became a close friend of Moina Mathers.
Offor was born in 1864 in Sydenham, Kent and trained at the Slade School of Art in London, where she became a close friend of Moina Mathers.
Slade School of Fine Artist
Much of her work consisted of representations of heads of young women. A report published in 1907 said that:
the famous "Offor Heads" are known the world over. Her paintings were shown regularly at the Royal Academy of Arts.
She also painted portraits of Joseph Howard Member of Parliament and Sir Ralph Littler, KC. She suffered a nervous breakdown in 1919, and died on 7 August 1920 from injuries sustained after falling from a window.
A verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned at the inquest. Almost 40 of her paintings are held in the collection of the Bruce Castle Museum, Tottenham.
They include portraits of young women, local dignitaries, and a woman believed to be the novelist "Ouida". Her portrait of Sir Ralph Littler is in the Middlesex Guildhall Art Collection.