Ginette Bingguely-Lejeune

Bingguely-Lejeune was born and raised in Paris and studied under Jean-George Achard there before studying in London with Charles Doman.^[2] In 1923 she married Henry Bingguely at Kensington in London.^[2] The couple spent World War II in London.^[2] She was a life-long number of the Societe des Artistes Francais and exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon and at the Royal Academy in London.^[2][3] She also exhibited at the Fine Art Society, the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and with the Royal Society of British Artists.^[4] In 1948 Bingguely-Lejeune was awarded the Legion of Honour.^[1]

Bingguely-Lejeune's portrait bust of Rudyard Kipling is in the National Portrait Gallery, London and Nuffield College in Oxford holds her 1937 bust of Lord Nuffield.^[2] Other subjects included Haile Selassie and General de Gaulle.^[1] Her portrait of General Henri Guisan is held by the Museum of Fine Art in Lausanne.^[3]

She died at Corseaux in Switzerland.^[3]

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