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...
Friends, Associates
Dorothy Brett
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...
Occupation
Dorothy Brett
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...