A
dreamy young blond woman holding a Bengal cat is depicted relaxing in a
deckchair. She gazes upward and outward, pondering—the distinctive
marbling of the cat echos the floral background. The work is painted
with soft, flat summer pastel colors; the picture exudes a sense of
quiet relaxation. One can fall in love with this picture and look at it
endlessly in person. Unsigned. Framed size 34.5 x 26.5 - Elegantly
framed and matted without plexi or glass in front.
Provenance: Chris Beetles Gallery, London.
Exhibited: Louis Wain & the Summer Cat Show, 1999, No 176
The Turn of Women Artists, 1837 -2018 - March 14 - April 2018, No 127

From Wikipedia:
Muriel Alice Pemberton RWS, FSIA (8 September 1909 – 30 July 1993) was a British fashion designer, painter and academic.

According to The Independent, she "invented art-school training in fashion in Britain".
Early life

Muriel Alice Pemberton was born in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent, on 8 September 1909,or 8 September 1910.

The daughter of Thomas Henry Pemberton, who was a skilled amateur
painter as well as a photographic innovator, inventing a one-camera
stereoscopic process. Her mother, Alice Pemberton, née Smith, retired
from a career as a professional singer upon marriage and she was also a
gifted designer and needlewoman.[3]

At the age of fifteen, she was the youngest student at the local
Burslem School of Art. In 1928, she obtained a scholarship as well as a
major award to attend the School of Painting at London's Royal College
of Art. In 1931, she was awarded the RCA's first ever Diploma in
Fashion. Pemberton persuaded the head of the school of design, Professor
Ernest William Tristram, to introduce such a course, and he asked her
to draft the curriculum.[3]

According to the ODNB,

She proposed a combination of direct contact, sketching, and
analysing with an actual couturier, learning the basic skills of cutting
and sewing with a professional, and supplementing this with academic
studies in the history of fashion and design at museums such as the
Victoria and Albert.

Career
Following graduation in 1931, Pemberton was immediately
employed to teach fashion drawing two days a week at St Martin's School
of Art.Over time, she was able to expand this role and became head of
the UK's first Faculty of Fashion and Design.[1] The curriculum was much
as she had originally proposed to Tristram.

Even before the war, Pemberton's innovative approach to teaching
fashion and giving it a proper place in the art college curriculum had
attracted international attention. Her methods were widely copied, with
teachers visiting from all over the globe to study her approach.[3]

Her students included Katharine Hamnett, Bruce Oldfield, Bill Gibb
and Bjorn Lanberg.[1][3] In 1993, John Russell Taylor published a
biography of her life.[1]
Personal life

In 1941, she married John Hadley Rowe (died 1975).[1]

Pemberton died at 56 Vale Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, on 30 July 1993