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In 1907, Vanessa married Clive Bell. They had two sons, Julian (who died in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War at the age of 29) [1] and Quentin . The couple had an open marriage , [4] both taking lovers throughout their lives.
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- Vanessa Stephen, 30 May 1879, London, England
Dec 12, 2016 · Bell’s art critic husband, Clive, was in love with Woolf, his sister-in-law, who had an affair with the writer Vita Sackville-West; Vanessa herself took the critic Roger Fry and artist Duncan Grant as her lovers. Perhaps more for their lifestyles than their achievements, the Bloomsbury figures scandalized their contemporaries.
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Apr 17, 2023 · In 1907, Vanessa married Clive Bell (1881-1964) an English art critic, upon his return to London from studying art history in Paris. Like most of the Bloomsbury men, Clive was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and ran in the same social circles as most of Vanessa’s Friday Club.
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Janet Malcolm on how Virginia Woolf’s sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, transformed a quiet Sussex farmhouse into the backdrop for some of Bloomsbury’s most extraordinary scenes—in life and ...
Artworks. Vanessa Bell (nee Stephen) was born in central London in 1879, daughter of the Victorian scholar and writer Sir Leslie Stephen and sister of Virginia Woolf. After her father’s death she moved to Gordon Square in Bloomsbury, where, alongside her brothers and sister, she gave birth to weekly meetings for writers, artists and ...
Mar 3, 2017 · Identity. Virginia Woolf's Cooler Older Sister Was an Artist Who Embraced Open Marriage. Vanessa Bell's family ties and outrageous love life have long overshadowed her talent, but a...
Feb 8, 2017 · Artist Vanessa Bell - time to save her reputation from the beasts of Bloomsbury. Alastair Sooke. Feb 8, 2017 – 11.00pm. "Although she died when I was six, I do have powerful memories of her ...