1. Vanessa Bell was an English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury Group and the sister of Virginia Woolf.
20 Facts About Vanessa Bell
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Vanessa Bell was educated at home in languages, mathematics and history, and took drawing lessons from Ebenezer Cook before she attended Sir Arthur Cope's art school in 1896.
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Vanessa Bell then studied painting at the Royal Academy in 1901.
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Vanessa Bell had intimate relationships with art critic Roger Fry and with the painter Duncan Grant, with whom she had a daughter, Angelica in 1918, whom Clive Bell raised as his own child.
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On 7 April 1961, Vanessa Bell died from a brief illness at Charleston, Firle and was buried in the Firle Parish Churchyard.
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In 1906, when Vanessa Bell started to think of herself as an artist, she formed the Friday Club to create a place in London that was more favourable to painting.
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Vanessa Bell was encouraged by the Post-Impressionist exhibitions organised by Roger Fry, and she copied their bright colours and bold forms in her artworks.
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Vanessa Bell rejected the examples of Victorian narrative painting and rejected a discourse on the ideal and aberrant qualities of femininity.
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Vanessa Bell designed book jackets for all of her sister Virginia's books that were published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf's publishing company, the Hogarth Press.
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Vanessa Bell is one of the most celebrated painters of the Bloomsbury group.
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Vanessa Bell exhibited in London and Paris during her lifetime, and has been praised for innovative works and for her contributions to design.
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Vanessa Bell's paintings include Studland Beach, The Tub, Interior with Two Women, and portraits of her sister Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley and David Garnett.
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Vanessa Bell worked with Duncan Grant to create murals for Berwick Church in Sussex.
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Vanessa Bell had become a co-director of the Omega Workshop in 1913.
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Nude with Poppies, oil on canvas, is a preliminary design for a headboard which Vanessa Bell painted for Mary Hutchinson.
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Vanessa Bell created the cover art for the first edition dust jacket of that novel.
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In 2021, Vanessa Bell was one of four featured women artists at an exhibition at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle.
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Vanessa Bell's work was included in the 2021 exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Centre Pompidou.
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Vanessa Bell was portrayed by Janet McTeer in the Dora Carrington biopic Carrington and by Miranda Richardson in the film The Hours.
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Vanessa Bell was portrayed by Phoebe Fox and Eve Best in the BBC mini-series Life in Squares.