Nina Hamnett (1890-1956)

Professions: Portrait painter; Animal painter; Landscape painter; Still life painter; Illustrator; Painter

Nina Hamnett (1890-1956)
Nina Hamnett (British, 1890-1956), The Conversation, watercolour, signed, dated and inscribed, 'Paris 1921', 32 x 23.5 cm
Nina Hamnett (Tenby, Wales 1890-1956 London)
Nina Hamnett (British, 1890-1956) George Moore and Lord Alfred Douglas in the Cafe Royal, 1915

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Nina Hamnett Biography

(b Tenby [now in Dyfed], 14 Feb 1890; d London, 16 Dec 1956). British painter and illustrator. She studied at the Pelham School of Art (1906–7), the London School of Art (c. 1907–10) and at Marie Wassilieff’s Academy in Paris (1914), where Fernand Léger taught. In Paris she met most of the leading members of the avant-garde as well as her husband, the Norwegian artist Edgar de Bergen [Roald Kristian] (b 1893), with whom she briefly lived (1914–17). Flamboyantly unconventional, she rapidly became a well-known bohemian personality in London and Paris and modelled for many artists. Friends and mentors included Walter Sickert, Roger Fry, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Modigliani, Augustus John and Wyndham Lewis. Hamnett worked at the Omega Workshops (1913–19) on decorative art, for example a mural on the theme of contemporary London life at 4 Berkeley Street, London (for the art dealer Arthur Ruck). She exhibited widely during World War I and the 1920s in solo and group shows, including those of the London Group, the New English Art Club and the Salon d’Automne.

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