Angelica Vanessa Garnett (née Bell) (1918-2012), Writer and artist; wife of David Garnett; daughter of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant
Sitter in 7 portraits
Angelica Garnett's father was Duncan Grant, her mother's lover. Clive Bell, her mother's husband, was supportive of the love affair and allowed Angelica to bear his name and regard him as her father. Garnett was told about her true parentage at nineteen. She became an actress and artist, collaborating with Vanessa Bell and Grant on the murals for Berwick Church. To her parents' horror, she married David Garnett, her father's former lover, in 1942, but they later separated. Her memoir, Deceived with Kindness, focuses on her relationship with her biological parents and was awarded the J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography in 1985.
Virginia Woolf (née Stephen); Angelica Vanessa Garnett (née Bell)
by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1932
NPG P363(21)
Angelica Vanessa Garnett (née Bell); Virginia Woolf (née Stephen)
by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1932
NPG P363(22)
Angelica Vanessa Garnett (née Bell); Clive Bell; Stephen Tomlin; Lytton Strachey
by Vanessa Bell (née Stephen)
bromide snapshot print, 1926
NPG x13136
'Marjorie's school at Charleston' (Marjorie Strachey; Angelica Vanessa Garnett (née Bell))
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print on card mount, July 1926
NPG x129606
Raymond Mortimer; Angelica Vanessa Garnett (née Bell); the dog Henry; Lytton Strachey
by Vanessa Bell (née Stephen)
vintage snapshot print, 1928
NPG x13898
Angelica Vanessa Garnett (née Bell)
by Jane Bown
bromide print on card mount, 1979
NPG x28620
Angelica Vanessa Garnett (née Bell)
- Use this image
- Recent acquisition
by Sir Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith
oil on canvas, circa 1957
NPG 6951
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