Spanish, born in Italy, approx. 1716-1780 Related Paintings of Melendez, Luis Eugenio :. | Still-Life with a Box of Sweets and Bread Twists | Still-Life with a Box of Sweets and Bread Twists | Portrait of the Artist Holding a Life Study (mk05) | Still Life with Pigeons, Onions, Bread and Kitchen Utensils | Cucumber and tomatoes | Related Artists:
Vleughels NicolasFrench , b Paris, 6 Dec 1668; d Rome, 11 Dec 1737
Orcagnab Florence c 1320 d Florence 1368
Dora CarringtonBritish Painter,
1893-1932
English painter and decorative artist. Daughter of a Liverpool merchant, she was brought up in Bedford. She trained at the Slade School of Fine Art in London where she met John Nash, who aroused her interest in wood-engraving, and Mark Gertler, whose powerful figure paintings influenced her own approach to portraiture. She rejected Gertler as a lover and set up home with the homosexual essayist and biographer Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), first at Tidmarsh Mill, near Pangbourne, Berks, then at Ham Spray, between Newbury and Hungerford, Berks. In 1921 she married Ralph Partridge, living with him and Strachey in a m?nage ? trois, surrounded mainly by literary friends and receiving little encouragement to exhibit. She turned instead to decorative work, emulating Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant but in a style more native in inspiration and more naive. She designed tiles and inn signs, experimented with painting on glass and tinfoil, decorated furniture and designed the library at Ham Spray.