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Vanessa Bell
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Early Days: Vanessa Bell was the eldest daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Prinsep Jackson (1846 - 1895). Her parents lived at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Westminster, London, 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 before she attended Sir Arthur Cope's art school in 1896,and then studied painting at the Royal Academy in 1901. |
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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.
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