Duncan Grant

Fanny Garnett (Duncan and Vanessa’s grand-daughter, twin of Nerissa)

The Estate of Fanny Garnett

Deborah Gage Fine Art, London (Deborah’s father Lord Gage rented Charleston to Clive Bell), where acquired by the family of the present owner, and thence by descent

The painting shows Vanessa Bell and her grandson Julian (b. 1952), the first child of Quentin and Olivier Bell. It was swiftly painted in the sitting room at Charleston. Julian Bell is now a painter and writer.

Richard Shone

This special group of Bloomsbury works was formerly in the collection of Frances ‘Fanny’ Garnett, who was the daughter of Angelica Bell and David Garnett, and granddaughter to Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. The group encompasses paintings by both Grant and Bell, who were the central figures of the Bloomsbury group working in the early twentieth century. As the second generation of Bloomsbury, Fanny grew up surrounded by painting, writing and artistic experimentation, and these personal works include familiar, family scenes to the Garnett family, including a portrait of Vanessa Bell with Julian Bell (Angelica’s half brother) and a portrait of Nerissa Garnett (Franny’s twin).