Daisy Borne (1906-1998) was a Londoner who, after being  educated in America,  studied sculpture at Regent Street Polytechnic School of Art. For many years she shared a studio with Joyce Bidder in southwest London, and showed at the  Royal Academy from1932–61. Madonna of the Adoring Angels (1939) was her first in Palomino marble and first religious subject (a theme in which she would later specialise).