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Vanessa Bell
British painter and interior designer (1879–1961)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 30 May 1879
- Died
- 7 April 1961
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- Charleston Farmhouse, Firle
- Sex or gender
- female
- Given name
- Vanessa
- Father
- Leslie Stephen
- Mother
- Julia Stephen
- Spouse
- Clive Bell
- Sibling
- Virginia Woolf, Thoby Stephen, Adrian Stephen, George Herbert Duckworth, Stella Duckworth, Gerald Duckworth, Laura Stephen
- Movement
- Bloomsbury Group
- Genre
- still life, portrait, landscape painting
- Occupation
- painter, designer, photographer, artist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- artist files at
- Frick Art Research Library, Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library, National Gallery of Art Library
- cause of death
- cardiovascular disease
- copyright representative
- reproduction right not represented by CISAC member
- depicted by
- Vanessa Bell (née Stephen), Vanessa Bell
- described by source
- Broad Strokes, Concise Dictionary of Women Artists, A historical dictionary of British women
- educated at
- King's College London
- end of work period
- 1961
- has works in the collection
- Art Institute of Chicago, Auckland Art Gallery, Tate, Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Yale Center for British Art, National Portrait Gallery, National Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum, National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of South Australia
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- notable work
- Famous Women Dinner Service
- place of burial
- St. Peter's Churchyard, West Firle
- pseudonym
- Stephen, Vanessa, Bell, Mrs. Clive
- start of work period
- 1894
- unmarried partner
- Duncan Grant, Roger Fry
Connected on Wikidata
Creator of
- Famous Women Dinner Service
- Still Life, Asolo, Italy
- Flowers on a Balcony
- The Boat Painter's Yard
- Tea Things
- Arum Lilies
- Interior, 8 Fitzroy Street
- Still Life by the Studio Window
- Window, Still Life (recto)
- 8 Fitzroy Street
- Interior Scene, with Clive Bell and Duncan Grant Drinking Wine
- Interior with a Housemaid
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