Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles) Portrait By Strachey
Barbara Hiles BagenalShe was known by both her maiden and married name (1891–1984) was an artist associated with members of the Bloomsbury Group, primarily Vanessa Bell and Saxon Sydney-Turner. She was a long-time friend of fellow "Bohemian" and artist Dora Carrington. Bloomsbury Group In 1917, Hiles tented on the lawn of Vanessa Bell's Charleston property, which she shared with Duncan Grant. In a letter Bell wrote to her sister Virginia Woolf from Charleston on 23 July 1917, she notes: "...We have had a terrific party here for the week-end. Clive and Mary, Saxon, who suddenly telegraphed to ask if he could come and is still here, and Barbara in her tent, who spent most of the time here. I don't know how long she means to stay there. She said a week or two, but I strongly suspect she'll stay all the summer. As long as she doesn't bring all the world about our ears I don't mind, as she's very independent, but one's rather at the mercy of people if they choose to camp at one's d ...
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