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DBIDGenderTitle

PEOPLE

 2  Female Mrs
First NameMiddle NameLast Name

 Vanessa

Bell 

DOBPlace of BirthDODPlace of Death
 30/05/1879Kensington, London04/01/1961Charleston Farmhouse, East Sussex 
Father's last name if differentMother's / Own maiden name
 Stephen (Sir)Jackson 
Remarks

 Maiden name Stephen. Trained with Sir Arthur Cope 1896-1900. Studied at Royal Academy Schools 1901-1904. Married Clive Bell the critic in 1907. Later had daughter Angelica by lover Duncan Grant. Exhibited in the second Post-Impressionist Exhibition in 1912. Elected into the London Group in 1919 where she exhibited regularly. She also had two sons by her husband Clive, Quentin and Julian who both went on to become writers. Julian was killed by a shell fragment whilst driving a ambulance in the Spanish Civil War in 1937. She lived in Gordon Square 1922 - 1925. 

PersonRelationshipDate/Period

Adrian Stephen

Brother 

Angelica Garnett

Daughter 

Clive Arthur (Clive) Howard Bell

Husband01/01/1907 

David (Bunny) Garnett

Friend 

Duncan James Corrowr Grant

Lover 

John Maynard Keynes

Friend 

Julia Jackson

Mother 

Julian Bell

Son 

Karin Elizabeth Stephen

Sister-in-law 

Leonard Sidney Woolf

Brother in law 

Leslie Stephen

Father 

Lytton Giles (Lytton) Strachey

Friend 

Roger Eliot Fry

Friend 

Saxon Sydney-Turner

Friend 

Thoby Stephen

Brother 

Virginia Adeline (Virginia) Woolf

Sister 
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