Louise Elizabeth Garden MacLeod

Louise Elizabeth Garden–MacLeod (1857–1944) English-born American artist and arts educator. In 1887, she co-founded the Los Angeles School of Art and Design taking into consideration Mrs. J. Dalton Bond, this was the first art bookish in the area.

Louise Elizabeth Garden was born in London, England, on 25 April 1857. She began studying art at a young person age and by the get older she was a youthful she attended London's Royal School of Art in South Kensington. It was at the Royal School of Art she studying below N. G. Green, an teacher to the British royal family, as capably as a pupil of George Lesile, Henry Fiske, Richard Eschke, and Leandro Ramón Garrido. She also studied at Whistler's School (also known as Académie Carmen) in Paris, France.

In 1887, she moved from London to Los Angeles, California in hopes that the milder weather would tote up her health. That same year, co-founded the Los Angeles School of Art and Design as soon as Mrs. J. Dalton Bond, this was the first art school in the area.

In 1890, she wed Malcolm MacLeod, a Scottish inventor who helped her with dealing out the art school. They were married until MacLeod's death in 1914.