Vanessa Bell
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Vanessa Bell (née Stephen), 30 May 1879 – 7 April 1961), an English painter and interior designer, a founder of the Bloomsbury Group and Virginia Woolf's sister.
Early life and education
Vanessa Stephen was the elder daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Prinsep Duckworth. The family was joined by her sister Virginia, brothers Thoby (1880–1906) and Adrian (1883-1948), half-sister Laura (1870-1945), and George and Gerald Duckworth, half-brothers; they lived at 22 Hyde Park Gate in Westminster, London, London. She was educated at home in languages, mathematics, and history, and she began drawing lessons from Ebenezer Cook before attending Sir Arthur Cope's art school in 1896. She then studied painting at the Royal Academy in 1901.
She later in life said that she had been sexually assaulted by her half-brothers, George and Gerald Duckworth, throughout her childhood.
Personal life
Vanessa sold 22 Hyde Park Gate and moved to Bloomsbury, Virginia, and Adrian, where they first met and started socializing with the Bloomsbury Group, writers, and intellectuals. At Bell's house in Gordon Square, the Bloomsbury Group's first Thursday evening meetings began. Lytton Strachey, Desmond MacCarthy, and, later on, Maynard Keynes, Leonard Woolf, Roger Fry, and Duncan Grant were among the attendees.
Vanessa married Clive Bell in 1907. Julian (who died in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War at the age of 29) and Quentin were their two sons. The couple were married in an open relationship and continued to date, with both being married throughout their lives. Bell had affairs with art critic Roger Fry and with painter Duncan Grant, with whom she had a daughter, Angelica in 1918, whom Clive Bell raised as his own child.
Vanessa, Clive, Duncan Grant, and Duncan's lover David Garnett all fled to the Sussex countryside a few weeks before the First World War started, and they settled near Firle, East Sussex. Before his friendship with Lydia Lopokova, whom Bell disliked, John Maynard Keynes was a close friend and a regular member of the household.
Bell, Grant and Walker also worked on commissions for the Omega Workshops, which were established by Roger Fry at Charleston. In 1916, she had her first solo exhibition at the Omega Workshops.
Bell died in the Firle Parish Churchyard on April 7, 1961. Duncan Grant was buried next to her when he died in 1978.
