Doris Keane
1 portrait of Doris Keane
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Doris Keane
by Bassano Ltd
bromide print, 1919
Purchased, 1996
Photographs Collection
NPG x83118
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- Bassano Ltd (active 1901-1962), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 42746 portraits.
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- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, Buckinghamshire (sitter's home, Hawridge Windmill, Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire)
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Chris Brown
22 July 2016, 01:09
The photo of Doris Keane leaning on a garden ornament with a derelict building behind her was taken in the front of a disused windmill in Cholesbury Bucks. I have seen this photo used in a newspaper with the caption referring to the windmill as her weekend retreat
Alison Wilson nee Gomm
29 July 2020, 15:16
Doris Keane lived in the Mill House, Rays Hill, Cholesbury. The windmill, now restored, is at the bottom of the garden. In the early years of the twentieth century it belonged to Gilbert Cannan, the novelist, who entertained many of the Bloomsbury set including Mark Gertler, see https://www.ashmolean.org/gilbert-cannan-and-his-mill. Doris looks very youthful here, so may have been staying with the Cannans, although later she owned or rented the house and mill. She left for America when war broke out.