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Simon Bussy

(1870-1954), Artist; husband of Dorothy Strachey

Sitter in 25 portraits
Artist of 3 portraits
Simon Bussy was a French painter of portraits, landscapes and animals. He won a local scholarship to study art and subsequently studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he studied under E. Delaunay, then under Gustave Moreau; his fellow-pupils Matisse and Rouault became his lifelong friends. Bussy married Dorothea Strachey in 1903 and afterwards lived in the South of France, spending the summers in England and Scotland. He made portraits of members of the Bloomsbury circle, Paul Valery, Andre Gide and others, but eventually turned almost entirely to landscapes.

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Simon Bussy; André Gide, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax140870

Simon Bussy; André Gide

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, August 1920
NPG Ax140870

Simon Bussy; André Gide, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax140873

Simon Bussy; André Gide

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, August 1920
NPG Ax140873

Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey); Simon Bussy; André Gide, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax140872

Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey); Simon Bussy; André Gide

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, August 1920
NPG Ax140872

Lady Ottoline Morrell; Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell); André Gide; Simon Bussy and an unknown man, by Philip Edward Morrell - NPG Ax140874

Lady Ottoline Morrell; Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell); André Gide; Simon Bussy and an unknown man

by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, August 1920
NPG Ax140874

Simon Bussy and an unknown woman, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax140894

Simon Bussy and an unknown woman

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140894

Simon Bussy, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax140895

Simon Bussy

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140895

Simon Bussy, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax140896

Simon Bussy

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140896

Simon Bussy; Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey), by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax140897

Simon Bussy; Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey)

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140897

Simon Bussy and an unknown woman, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax140898

Simon Bussy and an unknown woman

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
NPG Ax140898

Simon Bussy; Vanessa Bell; Duncan Grant, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG x141318

Simon Bussy; Vanessa Bell; Duncan Grant

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
NPG x141318

Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends, possibly by Philip Edward Morrell - NPG Ax141303

Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends

possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
NPG Ax141303

Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends, possibly by Philip Edward Morrell - NPG Ax141306

Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends

possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
NPG Ax141306

Jean Marchand; Simon Bussy, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax141309

Jean Marchand; Simon Bussy

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
NPG Ax141309

Simon Bussy; Vanessa Bell; Duncan Grant with Lady Ottoline Morrell's pug Soie, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax141317

Simon Bussy; Vanessa Bell; Duncan Grant with Lady Ottoline Morrell's pug Soie

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
NPG Ax141317

Simon Bussy; Vanessa Bell; Duncan Grant, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax141318

Simon Bussy; Vanessa Bell; Duncan Grant

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
NPG Ax141318

Simon Bussy, by Ray Strachey - NPG x88544

Simon Bussy

by Ray Strachey
film negative, 1923
NPG x88544

Simon Bussy, by Ray Strachey - NPG Ax160928

Simon Bussy

by Ray Strachey
bromide print, 1923
NPG Ax160928

Simon Bussy, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax143850

Simon Bussy

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1935
NPG Ax143850

Simon Bussy; Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax143892

Simon Bussy; Dame Ethel Mary Smyth

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, late 1935
NPG Ax143892

Simon Bussy; Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, by Lady Ottoline Morrell - NPG Ax143893

Simon Bussy; Dame Ethel Mary Smyth

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, late 1935
NPG Ax143893

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