Angelica Garnett (née Bell) (b.1918), as Mistress Millament in “The Way of the World”

Vanessa Bell (1879 - 1961)

Oil on canvas

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Image of Angelica Garnett (née Bell) (b.1918), as Mistress Millament in “The Way of the World”
  • About the work
    Location
    Country: Italy
    City: Rome
    Place: British Embassy
  • About the artist
    Vanessa Bell painted and carried out decorative commissions throughout her life, designing fabrics, cushion covers, book jackets and interiors. Like her sister the writer Virginia Woolf, she belonged to the circle known as the Bloomsbury Group which included Clive Bell, whom she married in 1907. Bell worked for the Omega Workshops, an association of artists/craftsmen active from 1913 to 1919. She was also involved in the decorative work at Charleston Farmhouse near Lewes in Sussex. Now open to the public, this was Bell’s home until her death in 1961. Bell and Grant’s paintings were greatly influenced by exhibitions of Post-Impressionist art in London in 1910 and 1912, in which works by Cézanne, Picasso, Van Gogh and Gauguin were shown.
  • Explore
    People
    Angelica (née Bell) Garnett (1918 - )
    Places
    Subjects
    Congreve, William, actor/actress, female portrait, Bloomsbury Group, 20th century costume, necklace, pearls, curtain
    Materials & Techniques
    canvas, oil, oil painting
  • Details
    Artist
    Vanessa Bell (1879 - 1961)
    Title
    Angelica Garnett (née Bell) (b.1918), as Mistress Millament in “The Way of the World”
    Date
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    height: 51.00 cm, width: 40.50 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Mayor Gallery, February 1968
    Inscription
    bl: Vanessa Bell
    GAC number
    7970