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Quentin Claudian Stephen Bell (19 August 191016 December 1996) was an English art historian and author. is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Unified  -  by Athelstan 927 AD  Area  -  Total...


Bell was the son of Clive Bell and Vanessa Bell née Stephen, and the nephew of Virginia Woolf née Stephen. Bell's biography of his famous aunt, Virginia Woolf: A biography, 2 vols (London: Hogarth Press, 1972), won not only the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, but also the Duff Cooper Prize and the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award. He also wrote several books on the Bloomsbury Group and Charleston Farmhouse. Arthur Clive Howard Bell (September 16, 1881 – September 18, 1964) was an English critic, associated with the Bloomsbury group. ... Vanessa Bell Vanessa Bell (May 28, 1879 – April 7, 1961), was an English painter and interior designer and a member of the Bloomsbury group. ... For the American childrens writer, see Virginia Euwer Wolff Virginia Woolf (née Stephen) (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941) was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ... The Bloomsbury Group or Bloomsbury Set or just Bloomsbury, as its adherents would generally refer to it, was an English group of artists and scholars that existed from around 1905 until around World War II. // History The group began as an informal socialwe have been great to society assembly of... Charleston Farmhouse, near Lewes, East Sussex, UK Charleston, often called Charleston Farmhouse is a farmhouse located between Lewes and Polegate in Sussex, England. ...


He was a lecturer in Art History at the Department of Fine Art, King's College, University of Durham (Newcastle University from 1963) from 1952 to 1959, then professor at Leeds University. In 1964 he was appointed Slade professor of fine art at Oxford University and, in 1965, Ferens professor of fine art at Hull University. He was a professor of art history and theory at the University of Sussex from 1967 to 1975. Newcastle University is a British university located in Newcastle upon Tyne in the north-east of England. ... University Tower, University of Leeds The University of Leeds (United Kingdom) is amongst the largest of British universities and the most popular by applicants, with 52,444 applicants in 2003 for 7,228 places (UCAS). ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... The University of Hull, also known as Hull University, is an English university in East Yorkshire which was founded in 1927. ... The University of Sussex (also known colloquially as Sussex Uni) is an English campus university which is situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, and is four miles from Brighton. ...


He was married to (Anne) Olivier Bell née Popham. They had three children: Julian Bell, an artist and muralist; Cressida Bell, a notable textile designer; and Virginia Bell. Cressida Bell (born 1959) is an English artist and designer, specializing in textiles and interiors. ...


His older brother was the poet Julian Heward Bell. The writer Angelica Garnett is his half-sister. Julian Heward Bell (February 4, 1908 – July 18, 1937) was an English poet, and the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, the elder sister of Virginia Woolf. ... Angelica Garnett (née Bell, December 25, 1918) is a British author and artist. ...


Quentin Bell is buried in the churchyard of St. Peter's Church, West Firle, East Sussex.


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Interview with Quentin Bell (1634 words)
Antonio Bivar and Quentin Bell at Charleston farmhouse, Sussex, England, 1993.
Bell : Our "treasure," Grace Higgens ( nee Germany), was a charming character and I got to know her well when I was a boy (she was six years older than me), but this and meeting with other servants was not politically educational, except in the case of Blanche, who was an Irish rebel.
Bell : Virginia Woolf's notions concerning Latin America were grotesque; she had a friend, Victoria Ocampo, from Buenos Aires, who had to explain to her that the Argentine was not a great forest with alligators, butterflies as big as vultures, and natives pursued by pumas.
Vanessa Bell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (348 words)
Vanessa Bell ( 1879 - 1961) was an English painter and interior designer and a member of the Bloomsbury group.
She was born Vanessa Stephen, a daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen and the elder sister of Virginia, who later became better known as the novelist, Virginia Woolf.
Bell was played by Miranda Richardson in the Academy Award winning 2002 film The Hours and by Janet McTeer in Carrington.
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