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Clive Bell

(1881-1964), Art critic

(Arthur) Clive Heward Bell

Sitter in 29 portraits
Art critic and writer. Bell read history at Trinity College, Cambridge where he met Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf, Thoby Stephen and others later associated with the Bloomsbury group. He married Vanessa Bell in 1907, and their home at 46 Gordon Square was the focus of the group. With Roger Fry he arranged the first Post-impressionist exhibition of 1910. His book Art (1914) popularised the notion of 'significant form' in art, rather than content, appealing directly to the emotions, and Civilization (1928).

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Clive Bell

by Roger Fry
oil on canvas, circa 1924
NPG 4967

Clive Bell

by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1932
NPG P363(1)

The Memoir Club

by Vanessa Bell
oil on canvas, circa 1943
NPG 6718

Clive Bell

by Messrs Stearn
albumen cabinet card, late 1890s
NPG x13092

Marjorie Strachey; Clive Bell

by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1910
NPG Ax160973

Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends

by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, July 1915
NPG Ax140445

Roger Fry; Clive Bell; Duncan Grant; Lytton Strachey; Saxon Arnold Sydney-Turner; Vanessa Bell

by Unknown photographer
bromide copy print, circa 1916
NPG Ax160974

Garsington visitors

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1916
NPG Ax140546

John Middleton Murry; Clive Bell

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG Ax140495

Gerald Frank Shove; Clive Bell and women farm workers

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG Ax140512

Gerald Frank Shove; Clive Bell and farm workers

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG Ax140513

Clive Bell; Gerald Frank Shove and farm workers

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG Ax140514

Clive Bell; Gerald Frank Shove and farm workers

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG Ax140515

Clive Bell and two farm workers

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG Ax140518

Sir John Tresidder Sheppard; Clive Bell; Lytton Strachey

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG Ax140548

Clive Bell and an unknown man

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG Ax140549

Sir John Tresidder Sheppard; Clive Bell; Lytton Strachey

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG Ax140550

Clive Bell; Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG Ax140556

Elizabeth (née Asquith), Princess Bibesco; Clive Bell

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG Ax140557

Dorothy Brett; Clive Bell

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG Ax140694

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