Isabella Frances Townshend was an Anglo-Irish artist, and one of the first five students at Hitchen College (present-day Girton College, Cambridge).
Isabella Frances Vere Townshend was born on 1 November 1847 in Rosscarbery, County Cork to Rev Chambré Corker Townshend and Eliza Wilmot Townshend ().
In 1869, Townshend was one of five women to enroll at Hitchen College; she left the college in 1872 without obtaining a qualification.
Townshend died on 20 July 1882 in Ealing, Middlesex (present-day London) aged 34. On 25 July 1882 Townshend was buried at St Mary's Perivale.
Through her brother Chambré Corker Townshend, she was the sister-in-law of Emily Townshend, a social reformer, suffragette and fellow-student at Hitchin College, and the aunt of the artist Caroline Townshend.