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Vanessa Bell

British painter, designer and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879–1961)

For the American actress, see Vanessa Bell Calloway.

Vanessa Bell (née Stephen; 30 May 1879 – 7 April 1961) was an English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury Group and the sister of Virginia Woolf (née Stephen).

Early life and education

See also: Julia Stephen and Virginia Woolf

Vanessa Stephen was the elder daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Prinsep Duckworth.^[1] The family included her sister Virginia, brothers Thoby (1880–1906) and Adrian (1883–1948), half-sister Laura (1870–1945) whose mother was Harriett Thackeray and half-brothers George and Gerald Duckworth; they lived at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Westminster, London. She 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. She then studied painting at the Royal Academy in 1901.^[2]

Later in life, she said that during her childhood she had been sexually abused by her

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The Life & Art of Vanessa Bell: Post-Impressionism Pioneer

Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) was an English painter and interior designer that focused on Post-Impressionism and Abstraction in her art. She had a close relationship with her sister Virginia Woolf and was a prominent member of the Bloomsbury group in the early twentieth century. Bell was something of a freewheeling intellectual who harbored modern perspectives and opinions on feminism, marriage, and the social order of the time. She had an open marriage to fellow Bloomsbury member Clive Bell and had affairs with artists like Roger Fry and Duncan Grant. She was greatly involved with Roger Fry’s Omega Workshops, which brought a lot of attention to her art during her lifetime.

Vanessa Bell’s Childhood in London

Vanessa Stephen was born in May 1879 at Hyde Park Gate in Westminster, London. Born as the eldest daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Prinsep Duckworth, who both had an established history in this prestigious area of London, young Vanessa had big shoes to fill. She was educated at home in subjects l

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(Born London, 30 May 1879; died Firle, Sussex, 7 April 1961). British painter and designer. She married Clive Bell in 1907 and like him and her sister, Virginia Woolf, was a central figure of the Bloomsbury Group. Her early work, up to about 1910, and her paintings produced after the First World War are tasteful and fairly conventional, in the tradition of the New English Art Club, but in the intervening years she was briefly in the vanguard of progressive ideas in British art. At this time, stimulated by the Post-Impressionist exhibitions of Roger Fry (with whom she had an affair), she worked with bright colours and bold designs and by 1914 was painting completely abstract pictures. Her designs for Fry's Omega Workshops included a folding screen (1913–14, V&A, London) clearly showing the influence of Matisse.