 Charles Maugham was also the brother of both the exiled British writer, W. Somerset Maugham and Frederic Maugham, who served as Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom from 1938 to 1939.Daphne Maugham initially studied painting in Paris, attending the "Academie Rason", directed by Nabis artists Paul Sérusier and Maurice Denis.She then studied from 1918 to 1921 at the Accademie Notre-Dame des Champs with Cubist painter Andre Lhote.