Painter in oil, born in Czeliewy, Poland. She studied in Warsaw, Cracow and from 1896 at Académie Julian in Paris where she met her future husband, the Camden Town Group painter Robert Bevan. She settled in England in 1898, two years later beginning to show at WIAC and in 1908 with Frank Rutter’s AAA. She became well known as a hostess to the artists and clients of the Camden Town, Cumberland Market and LG shows, noted for her sweet nature. Had first solo show at Adams Gallery in 1935, which gave her a memorial exhibition 17 years later. Her interiors and landscapes can at their best be comparable with her husband’s in strong construction, also showing a delightful colour sense and often a naïve charm. Tate Gallery holds several examples.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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