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for|the American actress|Vanessa Bell CallowayInfobox person| name = Vanessa Bell| image = Roger Fry Vanessa Bell.jpg| birth_name = Vanessa Stephen| birth_date = birth date|1879|5|30|df=y| death_date = death date and age|1961|4|7|1879|5|28|df=y| spouse = marriage| Clive Bell |1907|1961| children = Julian Bell (1908-1937) Quentin Bell (1910-1996) Angelica Garnett (1918-2012)| occupation = Painter/Interior designer Vanessa Bell (née Stephen ; 30 May 1879 & ndash; 7 April 1961) was an England|English Painting|painter and interior designer , a member of the Bloomsbury group , and the sister of Virginia Woolf .
Biography and art
Vanessa Stephen was the eldest daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Princep Duckworth (1846–1895). Her parents lived at 22 Hyde Park, London|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 Wake Cook|Ebenezer Cook before she attended Sir Arthur Cope's art school in 1896, and then studied painting at the Royal Academy in 1901.
In later life, Stephen claimed that during her childhood she had been sexually molested by her half-brothers, George Herbert Duckworth|George and Gerald Duckworth .
After the deaths of her mother in 1895 and her father in 1904, Vanessa sold 22 Hyde Park Gate and moved to Bloomsbury with Virginia and brothers Thoby Stephen|Thoby (1880–1906) and Adrian Stephen|Adrian (1883–1948), where they met and began socialising with the artists, writers and intellectuals who would come to form the Bloomsbury Group .
She married Clive Bell in 1907 and they had two sons, Julian Bell|Julian (who died in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War at the age of 29), and Quentin Bell|Quentin . The couple had an open marriage , both taking lovers throughout their lives. Vanessa Bell had affairs with art critic Roger Fry and with the painter Duncan Grant , with whom she had a daughter, Angelica Garnett|Angelica in 1918, whom Clive Bell raised as his own child. http://www.tate.org.uk/archivejourneys/bloomsburyhtml/group.htm
Vanessa, Clive, Duncan Grant and Duncan's lover David Garnett moved to the Sussex countryside shortly before the outbreak of World War I|First World War , and settled at Charleston, Sussex|Charleston Farmhouse near Firle , East Sussex, where she and Grant painted and worked on commissions for the Omega Workshops established by Roger Fry.
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.
She is portrayed by Janet McTeer in the 1995 Dora Carrington biopic Carrington (film)|Carrington , and by Miranda Richardson in the 2002 film The Hours (film)|The Hours alongside Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf . Vanessa Bell is also the subject of Susan Sellers ' novel Vanessa and Virginia .
Further reading
Sketches in Pen and Ink , Vanessa Bell
A Passionate Apprentince: the early journals , Virginia Woolf
''A Moment's Liberty , Virginia Woolf
A Very Close Conspiracy: Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf , Jane Dunn
Vanessa Bell , Frances Spalding
Duncan Grant , Frances Spalding
Deceived with Kindness: a Bloomsbury Childhood , Angelica Garnett
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