E. V. B.

Eleanor Vere Boyle (née Gordon; 1 May 1825 – 29 July 1916) was a Scottish artist of the Victorian era whose work consisted mainly of watercolor illustrations in children's books. These illustrations were strongly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites,

highly detailed and haunting in content. Love and death were popular subject matter of Pre-Raphaelite art and something that can be seen in Boyle's work. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, called her work "great in design."

However, even though she was one of the first woman artists to be recognised for her achievements, she did not exhibit or sell work often, as it was not acceptable given her family's aristocratic background. Thus, she signed her works "EVB" to obscure her identity and quickly became one of the most important female illustrators in the 1860s.