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Vanessa Bell (née Stephen) (30 May 1879 – 7 April 1961) was an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 painter
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
 and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury group
Bloomsbury Group

The Bloomsbury Group was an England collectivity of friends and relatives who lived in or near London during the first half of the twentieth century....
, and the sister of Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an England novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literature literature figures of the twentieth century....
.

Biography and artwork
Vanessa Bell was the eldest daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen
Leslie Stephen

Sir Leslie Stephen, Order of the Bath was an England author, critic and mountaineer, and the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell....
 and Julia Prinsep Jackson (1846 - 1895). Her parents lived at 22 Hyde Park Gate, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, and Vanessa lived there until 1904. She was educated at home by her parents in languages, mathematics and history, and took drawing lessons from Ebenezer Cook
Ebenezer Wake Cook

Ebenezer Wake Cook was a water-colour Painting.Cook was born at Maldon, Essex, Essex, England and came to Melbourne in 1852. At 17 years of age Cook became an assistant to Nicholas Chevalier, who instructed him in painting, wood-engraving and lithography....
 before she attended Sir Arthur Cope's art school in 1896,and then studied painting at the Royal Academy
Royal Academy

The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London, England. As an academy, it functions to encourage British art, and has a membership of practising artists....
 in 1901.

After the deaths of her mother in 1895 and her father 1904, Vanessa sold 22 Hyde Park Gate and moved to Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury may refer to:* Bloomsbury, an area in central London.* the Bloomsbury Group, an English literary group active around from around 1905 to the start of World War II....
 with her sister Virginia and brothers Thoby
Thoby Stephen

Thoby Stephen , known as the Goth, was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, as were his sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf and his younger brother Adrian Stephen....
 (1880 - 1906) and Adrian
Adrian Stephen

Adrian Stephen was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, an author and psychoanalyst, and the brother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. He and his wife became interested in the work of Sigmund Freud, and were among the first British psychoanalysts....
 (1883 - 1948), where they met and began socialising with the artists, writers and intellectuals who would come to form the Bloomsbury Group
Bloomsbury Group

The Bloomsbury Group was an England collectivity of friends and relatives who lived in or near London during the first half of the twentieth century....
.

She married Clive Bell
Clive Bell

Arthur Clive Heward Bell was an England Art critic, associated with the Bloomsbury group....
 in 1907 and they had two sons, Julian
Julian Bell

Julian Heward Bell was an English poet, and the son of Clive Bell and Vanessa Bell, the elder sister of Virginia Woolf. The writer Quentin Bell was his younger brother; the writer and painter Angelica Garnett is his half-sister....
 (who died in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted coup d'?tat by a group of Spanish Army generals, supported by the conservative Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right , Carlist groups and the fascistic Falange, against the government of the Second Spanish Republic, then under the leadership of pr...
 at the age of 29), and Quentin
Quentin Bell

Quentin Claudian Stephen Bell was an England art historian and author.Bell was the son of Clive Bell and Vanessa Bell n?e Stephen, and the nephew of Virginia Woolf n?e Stephen....
.






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Vanessa Bell (née Stephen) (30 May 1879 – 7 April 1961) was an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 painter
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
 and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury group
Bloomsbury Group

The Bloomsbury Group was an England collectivity of friends and relatives who lived in or near London during the first half of the twentieth century....
, and the sister of Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an England novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literature literature figures of the twentieth century....
.

Biography and artwork


Vanessa Bell was the eldest daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen
Leslie Stephen

Sir Leslie Stephen, Order of the Bath was an England author, critic and mountaineer, and the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell....
 and Julia Prinsep Jackson (1846 - 1895). Her parents lived at 22 Hyde Park Gate, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, and Vanessa lived there until 1904. She was educated at home by her parents in languages, mathematics and history, and took drawing lessons from Ebenezer Cook
Ebenezer Wake Cook

Ebenezer Wake Cook was a water-colour Painting.Cook was born at Maldon, Essex, Essex, England and came to Melbourne in 1852. At 17 years of age Cook became an assistant to Nicholas Chevalier, who instructed him in painting, wood-engraving and lithography....
 before she attended Sir Arthur Cope's art school in 1896,and then studied painting at the Royal Academy
Royal Academy

The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London, England. As an academy, it functions to encourage British art, and has a membership of practising artists....
 in 1901.

After the deaths of her mother in 1895 and her father 1904, Vanessa sold 22 Hyde Park Gate and moved to Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury may refer to:* Bloomsbury, an area in central London.* the Bloomsbury Group, an English literary group active around from around 1905 to the start of World War II....
 with her sister Virginia and brothers Thoby
Thoby Stephen

Thoby Stephen , known as the Goth, was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, as were his sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf and his younger brother Adrian Stephen....
 (1880 - 1906) and Adrian
Adrian Stephen

Adrian Stephen was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, an author and psychoanalyst, and the brother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. He and his wife became interested in the work of Sigmund Freud, and were among the first British psychoanalysts....
 (1883 - 1948), where they met and began socialising with the artists, writers and intellectuals who would come to form the Bloomsbury Group
Bloomsbury Group

The Bloomsbury Group was an England collectivity of friends and relatives who lived in or near London during the first half of the twentieth century....
.

She married Clive Bell
Clive Bell

Arthur Clive Heward Bell was an England Art critic, associated with the Bloomsbury group....
 in 1907 and they had two sons, Julian
Julian Bell

Julian Heward Bell was an English poet, and the son of Clive Bell and Vanessa Bell, the elder sister of Virginia Woolf. The writer Quentin Bell was his younger brother; the writer and painter Angelica Garnett is his half-sister....
 (who died in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted coup d'?tat by a group of Spanish Army generals, supported by the conservative Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right , Carlist groups and the fascistic Falange, against the government of the Second Spanish Republic, then under the leadership of pr...
 at the age of 29), and Quentin
Quentin Bell

Quentin Claudian Stephen Bell was an England art historian and author.Bell was the son of Clive Bell and Vanessa Bell n?e Stephen, and the nephew of Virginia Woolf n?e Stephen....
. The two had an open marriage
Open marriage

Open marriage typically refers to a marriage in which the partners agree that each may engage in adultery, without this being regarded as infidelity....
, both taking lovers throughout their life together. She had affairs with art critic Roger Fry
Roger Fry

Roger Eliot Fry was an England artist and an art critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury group. Despite establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, as he matured as a critic he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism....
, and with the painter Duncan Grant
Duncan Grant

Duncan James Corrowr Grant was a Scottish people Painting and member of the Bloomsbury Group. He was a cousin of John Grant, Lord Huntingtower and grandson of the second Sir John Peter Grant ....
, with whom she had a daughter, Angelica
Angelica Garnett

Angelica Vanessa Garnett is a United Kingdom writer and Painting. She is the illegitimate daughter of the painters Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, sister of Virginia Woolf, and was a member of the Bloomsbury Group....
 in 1918, whom Clive Bell raised as his own daughter. Clive Bell took writer and patron of the arts Mary Hutchinson, amongst others, as his lover.

Vanessa, Clive, Duncan Grant and Duncan's lover David Garnett
David Garnett

David Garnett was a United Kingdom writer and publisher. As a child, he had a cloak made of rabbit skin and thus received the nickname "Bunny" by which he was known by friends and intimates all his life....
 moved to the Sussex
Sussex

Sussex , from the Old English Su?seaxe , is a Historic counties of England in South East England England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex....
 countryside shortly before the outbreak of First World War
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
, and settled at Charleston Farmhouse near Firle
Firle

For the suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, see Firle, South Australia.Firle is a village and civil parish in the Lewes of East Sussex, England....
, East Sussex, where she and Grant painted and worked on commissions for the Omega Workshops
Omega Workshops

The Omega Workshops was a design enterprise founded by members of the Bloomsbury group and established in 1913. It was located at 33 Fitzroy Square in London....
 established by Roger Fry.

Vanessa Bell's significant paintings include Studland Beach (1912), The Tub (1918), Interior with Two Women (1932), and portraits of her sister Virginia Woolf (three in 1912), Aldous Huxley (1929-1930), and David Garnett (1916).

She is considered one of the major contributors to British portrait drawing and landscape art in the 20th century.

She is portrayed by Janet McTeer
Janet McTeer

Janet McTeer, Order of the British Empire is an award-winning United Kingdom actress.Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, McTeer attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and began her successful theatrical career with the Royal Exchange Theatre after graduating....
 in the 1995 Dora Carrington
Dora Carrington

Dora de Houghton Carrington , known generally as Carrington, was a United Kingdom painter and decorative artist, remembered in part for her association with members of the Bloomsbury Group, especially the writer Lytton Strachey....
 biopic Carrington
Carrington (film)

Carrington is a film released in 1995 in film about the life of the England artist Dora Carrington, who was known simply as Carrington....
, and by Miranda Richardson
Miranda Richardson

Miranda Jane Richardson is an England stage, film and television actor....
 in the 2002 film The Hours
The Hours (film)

The Hours is a 2002 in film Cinema of the United States/Cinema of the United Kingdom drama film directed by Stephen Daldry. The screenplay by David Hare is based on the 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hours by Michael Cunningham....
 alongside Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman

Nicole Mary Kidman, Order of Australia is an Academy Award-winning Hawaiian-born Australian actress, fashion model, singer, United Nations Citizen of the World award-winning humanitarian, and a UNIFEM and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador....
 as Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an England novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literature literature figures of the twentieth century....
. Vanessa Bell is also the subject of Susan Sellers
Susan Sellers

Susan Sellers is an author, translator, editor and novelist. She is Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of St Andrews, and co-General Editor of the Cambridge University Press edition of the writings of Virginia Woolf....
' novel "Vanessa and Virginia".

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