Noël Gilford Adeney (1890 – 24 January 1978) was a British artist, known for her landscape and still life paintings and a member of

The London Group The London Group is a society based in London, England, created to offer additional exhibiting opportunities to artists besides the Royal Academy of Arts. Formed in 1913, it is one of the oldest artist-led organisations in the world. It was form ...

Biography

Noël Gilford was born in

Surrey Surrey () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant urban areas which form part of the Greater London Built-up Area. ...

, the daughter of William Gilford, a landowner, and his wife Elizabeth. Noël Gilford was educated in Darlington and studied at the

Slade School of Fine Art The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade) is the art school of University College London (UCL) and is based in London, England. It has been ranked as the UK's top art and design educational institution. The school is organised as ...

in London from 1910 to 1915. At the Slade she trained as a dress designer; one of her garments is featured in the portrait of cellist

Guilhermina Suggia Guilhermina Augusta Xavier de Medim Suggia Carteado Mena, known as Guilhermina Suggia, (27 June 1885 – 30 July 1950) was a Portuguese cellist. She studied in Paris, France with Pablo Casals, and built an international reputation. She spent man ...

by the Welsh painter Augustus John. She met textile designer

Phyllis Barron Mabel Phyllis Barron (19 March 1890 – 23 November 1964) was an English designer, known for her textile printing workshop with Dorothy Larcher. These textiles are ‘noted for the assurance and originality of the designs, their distinctive and s ...

at The Slade and used her hand-blockprinted fabric for her dress making. In 1921 she married the English painter and textile designer

Bernard Adeney Bernard Adeney (2 August 1878 – 4 April 1966) was an English painter and textile designer. He was a founding member of the London Group, an artists' exhibiting society, and was its president from 1921 to 1923. Between 1930 and 1947, he was ...

who she had met in 1918, his first wife was the painter Thérèse Lessore. Their son

Richard Adeney Richard Gilford Adeney (25 January 1920 – 16 December 2010) was a British flautist who played principal flute with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the English Chamber Orchestra, was a soloist and a founding member of the Melos Ensemble. ...

was a

flautist The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

who played principal flute with the

London Philharmonic Orchestra The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) is one of five permanent symphony orchestras based in London. It was founded by the conductors Sir Thomas Beecham and Malcolm Sargent in 1932 as a rival to the existing London Symphony and BBC Symphony ...

. Adeney wrote a novel, ''No Coward Soul'', published by

Hogarth Press The Hogarth Press is a book publishing imprint of Penguin Random House that was founded as an independent company in 1917 by British authors Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf. It was named after their house in Richmond (then in Surrey and now ...

in 1956. It is a semi-biographical account of her encounters with the novelist and painter

Denton Welch Maurice Denton Welch (29 March 1915 – 30 December 1948) was a British writer and painter, admired for his vivid prose and precise descriptions. Life Welch was born in Shanghai, China, to Arthur Joseph Welch, a wealthy British rubber merchant, ...

(fictionalised as 'Merton Hughes'). In 2004 her painting called ''Still life of two jugs with tulips and daffodils, and a pansy in a pot to the side'' sold at

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auction house for £657.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Adeney, Noël Gilford 1890 births 1978 deaths 20th-century English women artists English women painters Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art English landscape painters People from Surrey Still life painters