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Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 – 9 September 1934) was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group.Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism.
Bloomsbury Square's garden contains a bronze statue by Richard Westmacott of Charles James Fox, who was a Whig associate of the Dukes of Bedford. None of the original 17th-century buildings survive, but there are many handsome 18th- and early 19th-century houses.
On 18 March 2017, the painting was attacked by a man with a sharp object. [3] [4] The painting received two scratches of about 1 m (3 ft 3 in) and 65 cm (2 ft 2 in) long in the incident, crossing in the lower half of the figure of Mrs Hallett, but the canvas was not pierced. [5] After 10 days of restoration, the painting went back on display. [5]
The film, starring Emma Thompson in the title role, focuses on her unusual relationship with the author Lytton Strachey, played by Jonathan Pryce, as well as with other members of the Bloomsbury Group. The film is divided into six chapters. The Mill at Tidmarsh, a 1918 painting by Carrington of the Mill House, Tidmarsh, Pangbourne, on the upper ...
Charleston Farmhouse, near Lewes, East Sussex. Charleston, in East Sussex, is a property associated with the Bloomsbury group, that is open to the public.It was the country home of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant and is an example of their decorative style within a domestic context, representing the fruition of more than sixty years of artistic creativity. [1]
Russell Square is a large garden square in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden, built predominantly by the firm of James Burton. It is near the University of London's main buildings and the British Museum. Almost exactly square, to the north is Woburn Place and to the south-east is Southampton Row.
Carrington's portrait of E. M. Forster, 1924–25 Dora Carrington; Ralph Partridge; Lytton Strachey; Oliver Strachey; Frances Partridge (née Marshall), 1923.. Carrington was not a member of the Bloomsbury Group, though she was closely associated with Bloomsbury and, more generally, with "Bohemian" attitudes, through her long relationship with the homosexual writer Lytton Strachey, whom she ...
They had three children: Julian Bell, an artist and muralist; Cressida Bell, a textile designer; and Virginia Nicholson, [6] the writer of Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden, Among the Bohemians and Singled Out. Bell had an older brother, the poet Julian Bell, who died in the Spanish Civil War in 1937.