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Ursula Tyrwhitt (1872–1966) was an English painter and draughtsman.


Biography

Ursula Tyrwhitt was born in
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,
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and studied at the
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from 1893 to 1894 and also in 1911 and 1912. She also studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and in Rome at the British Academy. Tyrwhitt was a close friend of
Gwen John Gwendolen Mary John (22 June 1876 – 18 September 1939) was a Welsh artist who worked in France for most of her career. Her paintings, mainly portraits of anonymous female sitters, are rendered in a range of closely related tones. Although s ...
and her brother Augustus Edwin John and is the subject of a 1903 etching by him held by the National Portrait Gallery, London. John also made a chalk drawing of her with Gwen John and Ida Nettleship (his first wife) which is held by the
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in the Paul Mellon Collection. Tyrwhitt exhibited with the
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and became a member in 1913. Examples of her work are displayed in
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, the
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and in the
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collection. The Ashmolean Museum held a retrospective exhibition in 1973 entitled ''Ursula Tyrwhitt, Oxford painter and collector 1872–1966''. Tyrwhitt married her cousin, the artist Walter Tyrwhitt (1859–1932). She lived in
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,
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and also in Oxford, where she died in 1966.


Further reading

*
Richard Buckle (Christopher) Richard Sandford Buckle CBE (6 August 1916 – 12 October 2001), was a lifelong English devotee of ballet, and a well-known ballet critic. He founded the magazine ''Ballet'' in 1939. Early life Buckle was the only son of Lieute ...
. ''Ursula Tyrwhitt: Oxford Painter and Collector''. Ashmolean Museum, 1974,


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tyrwhitt, Ursula 1878 births 1966 deaths 20th-century English painters 20th-century English women artists Académie Colarossi alumni Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art English women painters People from Essex