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Lady Ottoline Morrell
Painting by Augustus John - I wonder what she thought of him!
For a few years we have been visiting the National Portrait Gallery at this time of year, usually to see a particular show (Picasso's Portraits last Saturday) and whatever else we can include. Today a couple of photos in the whatever else category, both concerning members of the 'Bloomsbury Group'. who were an influential collection of somewhat Bohemian artists and other thinkers in the first half of the last century, although it's interesting to note that the incoming US President appears to be thinking along Keynesian lines as far as the American economy is concerned (he has yet to deliver, of course) as is the present UK Government, albeit in a very half hearted way. John Maynard Keynes, as well as being a leading economist of hsi time, was also very much part of the Bloomsbury group.
According to Wikipedia:-
'Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell (16 June 1873 – 21 April 1938) was an English aristocrat and society hostess. Her patronage was influential in artistic and intellectual circles, where she befriended writers including Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence, and artists including Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington and Gilbert Spencer.'
Lady Ottoline Morrell
Painting by Augustus John - I wonder what she thought of him!
For a few years we have been visiting the National Portrait Gallery at this time of year, usually to see a particular show (Picasso's Portraits last Saturday) and whatever else we can include. Today a couple of photos in the whatever else category, both concerning members of the 'Bloomsbury Group'. who were an influential collection of somewhat Bohemian artists and other thinkers in the first half of the last century, although it's interesting to note that the incoming US President appears to be thinking along Keynesian lines as far as the American economy is concerned (he has yet to deliver, of course) as is the present UK Government, albeit in a very half hearted way. John Maynard Keynes, as well as being a leading economist of hsi time, was also very much part of the Bloomsbury group.
According to Wikipedia:-
'Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell (16 June 1873 – 21 April 1938) was an English aristocrat and society hostess. Her patronage was influential in artistic and intellectual circles, where she befriended writers including Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence, and artists including Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington and Gilbert Spencer.'