Benita Eleanora Armstrong, nee Benita Jaeger later The Lady Strauss, (1907–2004) was British sculptor known for her bronze figurative work.
Armstrong was born into a Jewish family in Germany and moved to London in 1926.[1] In London she lived in a flat above a restaurant in Charlotte Street and for several years was in a relationship with Clive Bell.[1] After that relationship ended she met and, in 1932, married the British artist John Armstrong.[1] Benita Armstrong studied under the Viennese sculptor Georg Ehrlich and was a frequent participant in group exhibitions in London and elsewhere as well as regularly having work included in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions.[2] A solo exhibition of her work was held at the Drian Galleries in London in 1981.[3] [2] She and Armstrong separated and she eventually married the Labour Party politician George Russell Strauss with who she had two children.[4]