Frances Bannerman

Frances Bannerman (née Jones) (1855–1944) was a Canadian painter and poet. She painted in oil and watercolour and made black and white illustrations.

She was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1855. She was the youngest daughter of Lt. Governor Alfred G. Jones and Margaret Wiseman Stairs. She grew up in what is now the Waegwoltic Club. Bannerman received her early art education from her mother and from Forshaw Day, one of the founding members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, in Halifax.

In Paris, she studied at the ateliers of Edouard Krug and François-Nicolas-Augustin Feyen-Perrin, where she developed her skill as a figure painter. While living in Paris, Bannerman was one of the first North American artists to be influenced by Impressionism and began to use a brighter colour palette and depict light while working en plein air, although she preferred a more academic approach in her brushwork. Her early adoption to Impressionist painting principles had a large effect across Halifax in the early 1900s.