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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by Roger Fry
oil on canvas, circa 1924
NPG 4967
by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1932
NPG P363(1)
by Vanessa Bell
oil on canvas, circa 1943
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6718
by Messrs Stearn
albumen cabinet card, late 1890s
NPG x13092
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, circa 1911
NPG Ax160973
Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 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
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
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
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG Ax140694
Related People
- Julian Heward Bell (son)
- Quentin Claudian Stephen Bell (son)
- Vanessa Bell (née Stephen) (wife)
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