School of Art

Contact Details

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

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Thérèse Lessore

Born: 1884, UK, England, Brighton   Died: 1945

Painter. Third wife of Walter Sickert (1860-1942), sister of both Frederick Lessore (1879-1951) and Louise Powell (1882-1956) and sister-in-law of Helen Lessore (1907-1994). She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and was later associated with the Bloomsbury Group. She painted landscapes, circus scenes, figure subjects and portraits in oil and watercolour. She also decorated a number of pieces for Wedgwood & Sons Ltd.

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

[Two studies of a woman's head] WD127 WaterColourOrDrawings




 
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