Louie (Luker) Burrell was a portrait and miniature painter active in the early twentieth century in Britain, South Africa, North America, and India. The daughter of the Victorian landscape painter William Luker, Louie studied under Sir Hubert von Herkomer at Bushey between 1900 and 1903, where she won awards every year. She painted miniatures during the vacations to support her studies and exhibited at the Royal Academy (RA). She then went to South Africa, where she painted many of the rich Boer families and married. In 1907 she returned to England for the birth of her daughter, the following year. Soon afterwards her husband died. She took up work again, painting many members of the Royal Family and exhibiting regularly at the RA. In 1912 she became an Associate Member of the Royal Miniature Society. But her health broke down under the strain of work and supporting her child. She left for Canada, and with the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 fell on hard times. In 1916 she travelled to California and found portrait work in Los Angeles. Back in England in the 1920s, she enjoyed a last period of success. Finally, she turned to painting life-size in oils. She travelled to India, but ill health again forced her to give up professional work. The Artists General Benevolent Institution awarded her a small annual grant and she continued to paint. Though little known at her death in 1971, since 1979 a number of exhibitions of her work have sought to re-establish her reputation.