School of Art

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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

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Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Gwendolen, Mary Raverat

Born: 1885, UK, England, Cambridge   Died: 1957

Painter, illustrator, designer and writer. Grand-daughter of Charles Darwin. Studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, 1908-11, and later at the Sorbonne, Paris. At the latter she met her husband Jacques Pierre Raverat and together they lived in Le Harve, 1915, Weston in Hertfordshire, c.1915-20, and, from 1920, in Venice where Jacques Pierre died in 1925. That year she returned to Cambridgeshire. She was a founder member of the Society of Wood Engravers and worked as an art critic for 'Time and Tide' between 1928 and 1939. As an illustrator she produced work for numerous books including Sterne’s 'A Sentimental Journey', 1932, and Yonge’s 'Countess Kate', 1948. She also produced stage designs and worked as a portraitist with sitters including John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) and Rupert Brooke (1887-1915). In 1951 she suffered a stroke and lost the ability to engrave

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

The philosopher PR647 Prints




 
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