Lucy Carrington Wertheim (''née'' Pearson; 1882, in

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– 1971, in Brighton) was an English

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who founded the Twenties Group of "English artists in their twenties" in 1930 and was Christopher Wood's main patron before his death. Lucy Carrington Pearson married Mari Paul Johan Wertheim (1878–1952) in 1902. He was born in the Netherlands and became a British citizen. She, with her husband, ran galleries in London, Brighton and Derbyshire and was known for encouraging many young artists and sculptors. In the 1920s she bought many works by Henry Moore and encouraged

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. In 1930 she opened her first gallery at 3-5

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, Mayfair, London. It has been suggested that it was the artist

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who finally persuaded or perhaps goaded Mrs Wertheim to move from enthusiastic supporter of ' modern art' to a fully fledged gallery owner. Wertheim recalls the incident in her 1947 book 'Adventure in Art' - "Frances exclaimed to my husband, 'Your wife should open a gallery for us poor artists: her enthusiasm would make it a success!'...Those words however spoken more than half in jest, sowed a seed in my mind that was to bear fruit later." In the early 1960s she lent works to decorate the then-new and radical

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, near Brighton. Those either exhibited at her gallery or supported by Wertheim included

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, Humphrey Slater,

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, Vivin Hume,

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, John Bigge and John Banting,

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, Nando Manetti,

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, Isla Rodmell, Kenneth Hall,

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, John Melville,

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, Charles Higgins (Pic), David Burton,

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, Elizabeth Rivers, Mostyn Lewis, Jose Christopherson, David Gommon, Kathleen Walne and Christopher Wood amongst many others.Wertheim, Lucy

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Adventure in Art, Nicholson and Watson, London

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wertheim, Lucy 1883 births 1971 deaths Art dealers from London English art collectors Women art collectors 20th-century English businesspeople

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