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Vanessa Bell

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The Resume

    (May 30, 1879-April 7, 1961)
    Born in London, United Kingdom
    Birth name was Vanessa Stephen
    Sister of Virginia Woolf
    Painter and interior designer
    Known for her portraits and landscapes
    Paintings include 'Studland Beach' (1912), 'The Tub' (1918) and 'Interior with Two Women' (1932)
    Portraits include Virginia Woolf (1912), David Garnett (1916) and Aldous Huxley (1930)

Why she might be annoying:

    She and John Maynard Keynes were rumored to have had sex in the middle of a crowded drawing room.
    She had several affairs after her marriage, and had a daughter out of wedlock with painter Duncan Grant.
    She became estranged from her daughter, Angelica, who resented not being told who her father was until she was 17.
    Another factor in the estrangement was Vanessa objecting to Angelica marrying David Garnett. (Although Vanessa did have two pretty good grounds: (a) Garnett was more than 25 years older than Angelica; (b) Garnett had previously been the lover of Duncan Grant, Angelica's father.)
    She is overshadowed by her sister.

Why she might not be annoying:

    When she was a teen, her half-brother George would visit her and Virginia's beds to kiss, caress and fondle them.
    She and husband Clive Bell had an open marriage, each taking lovers.
    Clive even encouraged her desire to have a child with Duncan Grant.
    Clive may have had an affair with her sister Virginia, which even in an open marriage must have been awkward.
    Her oldest son Julian was killed by a bomb while working as an ambulance driver during the Spanish Civil War.
    Virginia once told her, 'You have the children, the fame by rights belongs to me.'

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 63 Votes: 52.38% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 15 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying