Natalie Alice Bevan (; 22 May 190915 August 2007), was a British artist, muse, and collector. She has been called, "one of the most beautiful and charismatic women of her generation".

Early life

She was born Natalie Alice Ackenhausen on 22 May 1909 at 2 Pembroke Cottages,

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, London, the eldest of three children of Kurt Bernhard Heinrich Carl Ackenhausen (1878/79–1954),a German textile merchant, and his wife, Alice Katherine Inchbold Ackenhausen, née Denny (d. 1964/65), a children's book illustrator. During the First World War, the family took up her mother's surname, Denny, and her father changed his given name to Court.

Career

She was painted by Mark Gertler when she was aged 19, a 1928 portrait entitled ''Supper''. She was a painter and ceramicist.

Personal life

On 24 August 1929, she married the writer and pioneering radio and television producer Lancelot de Giberne Sieveking (1896–1972), and they had two daughters, the artist Victoria Burroughs (1930–1988) and the photographer Anthea Sieveking (born 1933). Their marriage was dissolved in 1939. On 11 July 1946, she married the advertising executive Bobby Bevan (1901-1974), the son of the painters

Robert Polhill Bevan Robert Polhill Bevan (5 August 1865 – 8 July 1925) was a British painter, drawing, draughtsman and lithographer. He was a founding member of the Camden Town Group, the London Group, and the Cumberland Market Group. Early life He was born i ...

and Stanislawa de Karlowska, and they lived in

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, London, and at Boxted House in

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. In 1957, she became involved in a

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with

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, which continued until his death in 1968. On 26 March 1986, she married the sailor and writer Samuel Barclay (1920–2000).

Later life

She died on 15 August 2007, at Great Horkesley Manor, a nursing home in

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, and was buried at St Peter's Church,

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bevan, Natalie Alice 1909 births 2007 deaths Artists from London British ceramicists British women ceramicists Muses British art collectors Women art collectors

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20th-century ceramists