Noël Gilford Adeney
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.[1][2]
Biography[edit]
Noël Gilford was born in Surrey, the daughter of William Gilford, a landowner, and his wife Elizabeth.[3] Noël Gilford was educated in Darlington and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London from 1910 to 1915.[4][5] At the Slade she trained as a dress designer; one of her garments is featured in the portrait of cellist Guilhermina Suggia by the Welsh painter Augustus John.[5] She met textile designer Phyllis Barron at The Slade and used her hand-blockprinted fabric for her dress making.[6]
In 1921, she married the English painter and textile designer Bernard Adeney who she had met in 1918, his first wife was the painter Thérèse Lessore.[7][3] Their son Richard Adeney was a flautist who played principal flute with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.[8]
Adeney wrote a novel, No Coward Soul, published by Hogarth Press in 1956. It is a semi-biographical account of her encounters with the novelist and painter Denton Welch (fictionalised as 'Merton Hughes').[9]
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 Christie's auction house for £657.[10]
References[edit]
- ^ "The London Group". www.thelondongroup.com. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ "Noel Gilford Adeney - Artist, Fine Art Prices, Auction Records for Noel Gilford Adeney". www.askart.com. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ a b Gray, Sara (2019). British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in British Decorative Arts. Dark River. ISBN 978-1-911121-63-3.
- ^ "ADENEY Noël Gilford 1890-1978". www.artbiogs.co.uk. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ a b Methuen-Campbell, James (2003). Denton Welch: Writer and Artist. Tauris Parke Paperbacks. p. 138. ISBN 978-1860649240.
- ^ "Hand-blockprinted Textiles - Visual Arts Data Service: the online resource for visual arts". vads.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ Baron, Wendy (January 2011). "Sickert, Walter Richard (1860 - 1943)". The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- ^ Emerson, June. "Richard Adeney obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
- ^ Michael De-La-Noy (3 April 1995). "Obituary: Eric Oliver". The Independent. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ "Christie's". www.christies.com. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
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