Julian Morrell

The boy, Hugh , who seemed healthy at birth, died of a brain haemorrhage three days later. The girl was christened Julian , after Ottoline's spiritual mentor, Mother Julian . Both Ottoline and Philip were...

Thus began an intense friendship between Lady Ottoline and Brett, during which time Brett spent three years hard at work on her enormous painting of Ottoline. The final product (before Brett sloughed off the body...

After graduating from the Slade School of Art, DB became a professional artist. Her most famous early exhibition piece was War Widows, painted in 1916, in which a crowd of black-clad pregnant women take...

At these times they rented out La Souco, a practice which became an important source of income. Their tenants included Rudyard Kipling , George Mallory , and André Malraux ; André Gide and Julian Morrell