Ursula Tyrwhitt
Ursula Tyrwhitt (1872–1966) was an English painter and draughtsman.
Biography
[edit]Ursula Tyrwhitt was born in Nazeing, Essex and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1893 to 1894 and also in 1911 and 1912.[1] She also studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and in Rome at the British Academy.[1] Tyrwhitt was a close friend of Gwen John and her brother Augustus Edwin John[2] and is the subject of a 1903 etching by him held by the National Portrait Gallery, London.[3] John also made a chalk drawing of her with Gwen John and Ida Nettleship (his first wife) which is held by the Yale Center for British Art in the Paul Mellon Collection.[4]
Tyrwhitt exhibited with the New English Art Club and became a member in 1913.[1][2] Examples of her work are displayed in The National Library of Wales, the Tate Gallery and in the British Council collection. The Ashmolean Museum held a retrospective exhibition in 1973 entitled Ursula Tyrwhitt, Oxford painter and collector 1872–1966.[2]
Tyrwhitt married her cousin, the artist Walter Tyrwhitt (1859–1932).[5] She lived in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife and also in Oxford, where she died in 1966.[1]
Further reading
[edit]- Richard Buckle. Ursula Tyrwhitt: Oxford Painter and Collector. Ashmolean Museum, 1974, ISBN 978-0900090202
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 2, M to Z. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0-953260-95-X.
- ^ a b c "Painting". collections.vam.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
- ^ "Ursula Tyrwhitt". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
- ^ Maj, Yale Center for British Art, Lec. "Gwen John, Ida Nettleship and Ursula Tyrwhitt". collections.britishart.yale.edu. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Holroyd, Michael (2011). Augustus John: The New Biography. Pimlico. p. 552. ISBN 978-1845951849.
External links
[edit]- 16 artworks by or after Ursula Tyrwhitt at the Art UK site
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