Noël Gilford Adeney

Noël Gilford Adeney (1890 – 1978) was an accomplished artist, a member of The London Group[1] known for her landscape painting and still life.[2]

Noël Gilford was born in Surrey and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1910 to 1915.[3][4] At the Slade she trained as a dress designer; one of her garments is featured in the portrait of cellist Guilhermina Suggia by the Welsh painter Augustus John.[4] She met textile designer Phyllis Barron at The Slade and used her hand-blockprinted fabric for her dress making.[5] She married English painter and textile designer Bernard Adeney who she met in 1918, his first wife was the painter Thérèse Lessore.[6] Their son Richard Adeney was a flautist who played principal flute with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.[7]

In 2004 her painting called Still life of two jugs with tulips and daffodils, and a pansy in a pot to the side sold at Christies auction house for £657.[8]

References

  1. ^ "The London Group". www.thelondongroup.com. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  2. ^ "Noel Gilford Adeney - Artist, Fine Art Prices, Auction Records for Noel Gilford Adeney". www.askart.com. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  3. ^ "ADENEY Noël Gilford 1890-1978". www.artbiogs.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  4. ^ a b Methuen-Campbell, James (2003). Denton Welch: Writer and Artist. Tauris Parke Paperbacks. p. 138. ISBN 978-1860649240.
  5. ^ "Hand-blockprinted Textiles - Visual Arts Data Service: the online resource for visual arts". vads.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
  6. ^ Baron, Wendy (January 2011). "Sickert, Walter Richard (1860 - 1943)". The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  7. ^ Emerson, June. "Richard Adeney obituary". theguardian.com. The Guardian. Retrieved 2017-11-27.
  8. ^ "Christie's". www.christies.com. Retrieved 2017-11-26.

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