Ursula Tyrwhitt (1872–1966) was an English painter and draughtsman.

Biography

Ursula Tyrwhitt was born in

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and studied at the

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from 1893 to 1894 and also in 1911 and 1912. She also studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and in Rome at the British Academy. Tyrwhitt was a close friend of

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and her brother Augustus Edwin John and is the subject of a 1903 etching by him held by the

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. John also made a chalk drawing of her with Gwen John and Ida Nettleship (his first wife) which is held by the

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in the

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Collection. Tyrwhitt exhibited with the

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and became a member in 1913. Examples of her work are displayed in

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, the

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and in the

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collection. The

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held a retrospective exhibition in 1973 entitled ''Ursula Tyrwhitt, Oxford painter and collector 1872–1966''. Tyrwhitt married her cousin, the artist Walter Tyrwhitt (1859–1932). She lived in

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and also in Oxford, where she died in 1966.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tyrwhitt, Ursula 1872 births 1966 deaths 20th-century English painters Académie Colarossi alumni Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art People from Essex 20th-century English women painters

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