Possible Clues:

• Scalped brave unlikely to catch a thing?
• You might think she's of the nobility, but that's perhaps quite unsound
• Might she perhaps be a deaf peer?
• A stone deaf female peer, perhaps
• Like many seals
• Like Van Gogh, producing French art around his work place
• Seals appear so brave when at fathoms
• Head back, St Trinian's creator's unable to hear
• Like some seals, bold, but not at first
• Seal classification