Claire Shuttleworth was born in Buffalo, New York in 1868. She studied art at the Buffalo Art Students League under George Bridgman, in Paris with LucOliver Merson, Raphael Collin and Paul Leroy and in France and Italy with Frank DuMond.

She was a member of the Buffalo Society of Artists, American Federation of Arts and she joined the Rockport Art Association in 1923.

Her paintings were exhibited extensively, including at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904, the PanAmerican Exposition in Buffalo and at the PanamaPacific Exposition, of 1915, in San Francisco. She also exhibited with the Buffalo Society of Artists, at the New York Water Color Club and with the American and Pennsylvania Societies of Miniature Painters. Her works were shown at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, in numerous shows in London, Paris, and Rome and at the Arnot Art Gallery in Elmira, New York. She exhibited with the Society of Independent Artists between 1917 and 1925, with most of the works shown having a title referring to the Niagara Falls and River.

A series of her paintings, drawings and sketches, of scenes along the Niagara River, was organized, in 1920, by the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York.

Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton