Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938), Patron of the arts; half-sister of 6th Duke of Portland; wife of Philip Edward Morrell

Sitter associated with 594 portraits
Artist associated with 1693 portraits
Influential and generous patron and society hostess. As a young woman she travelled widely. In 1902 she married Philip Morrell and until 1915, they lived in Bloomsbury where she established herself as a literary and political hostess. From 1915 they lived at Garsington Manor, east of Oxford. Ottoline enjoyed socialising and shared Bloomsbury's interest in contemporary art. At Garsington she attracted a wide variety of artists and writers and was associated particularly Lytton Strachey, Henry Lamb, Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russell, Henry Lamb and Augustus John.