biography
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Bell, Vanessa
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née Stephen
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1879–1961)
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| biography:
| Painter and decorative designer, a leading member of the Bloomsbury Group, born in London, UK, the elder sister of Virginia Woolf. She studied at the Royal Academy Schools (1901–4), and in 1907 married the critic Clive Bell, but in 1916 left him to live at Firle, East Sussex, with Duncan Grant, a fellow-contributor to Roger Fry's Omega Workshops (1913–19). Elected to the London Group in 1919, she exhibited with them regularly from 1920. |
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