ANDREA OBHOLZER, author of A Bloomsbury Ingénue: The Lives and Loves of Euphemia Lamb
Euphemia Lamb (1887-1957) was an artist’s model and the first wife of artist Henry Lamb (1883-1960). Henry was a medical student at Manchester University when he first noticed Nina Forrest, a beautiful 17-year-old model at the School of Art and a working-class girl from Manchester. He drew her and she persuaded him to elope and fulfil his desire to become an artist. >span class="s1"> older brother Walter was at Cambridge with Thoby Stephen, brother of Virginia Woolf (née Stephen). The Stephen siblings had just lost their parents and had moved into a town house in Gordon Square. Into this Bloomsbury house walked Henry and Nina. Henry was her entrée into the bohemian world of artists, thinkers and writers. While he enrolled at Augustus John’s new art school in Chelsea, Nina frequented Gordon Square. Vanessa Stephen painted her and Virginia noted her unconventional behaviour. Nina’s outlook on life was direct. She...
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