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Portraits of the Bloomsbury Artists

Duncan Grant

(21 January 1885 – 8 May 1978)
Important British artist, living at Charleston with Vanessa Bell;  father of Angelica Garnett.  Life-long association with The Bloomsbury Set of artists known as the British Post-Impressionists. Famous for his paintings, drawings and furniture decoration at Roger Fry’s Omega Workshops in London.

Quentin Bell

(19 August 1910 – 16 December 1996)
Son of Vanessa and Clive Bell. Known for his sculpture and ceramics. Established a pottery at his home at Charleston then to Cobbe Place. Founder of The Charleston Trust,  Author and Lecturer.

Angelica Garnett

with Isabelle Anscombe ,co-author with the photographer, of the book 'Omega & After' 1981

(25 December 1918 – 4 May 2012)
Daughter of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell. Known for her weaving, designs on paper, and her award winning autobiography - “Deceived with Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood

Edward Wolfe

(29 May 1897 – 8 July 1982)
Last artist to join the Omega Workshops.

Raymond Mortimer

(25 April 1895 – 9 January 1980)
A British writer on art and literature, known mostly as a critic and literary editor.

Angus Davidson

(1898 - 1980)
Portrait sculptor but primarily know for his work as a translator and publisher. Associated with the circle of Bloomsbury Set of artists, writers and intellectuals.

Barbara Bagenal

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Associated with Lady Ottoline Morrell and her circle that included the Bloomsbury Group by 1915. Perhaps most famously known for tenting on the lawn of Vanessa Bell's Charleston property (which she shared with Duncan Grant) in 1917.

In a letter Bell wrote to her sister Virginia Woolf from Charleston on 23 July 1917 she notes: "...We have had a terrific party here for the week-end. Clive and Mary, Saxon, who suddenly telegraphed to ask if he could come and is still here, and Barbara in her tent, who spent most of the time here. I don't know how long she means to stay there. She said a week or two, but I strongly suspect she'll stay all the summer. As long as she doesn't bring all the world about our ears I don't mind, as she's very independent, but one's rather at the mercy of people if they choose to camp at one’s door…”

Source; Wikipedia

Pamela Diamand (née Fry)

Grace Higgins

Housekeeper of Charleston Farmhouse for 50 years

Howard Grey - Wearing Roger Fry’s PYJAMAS (1979)

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