Ophelia Gordon Bell
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1 July 1915
Ophelia Gordon Bell | |
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| Born | Winifred Joan Ophelia Gordon Bell 1 July 1915 London, England |
| Died | 1975 (aged 59–60) Grasmere, Westmorland, England |
| Resting place | Grasmere Cemetery, Grasmere, Westmorland |
| Spouse | William Heaton Cooper |
| Children | Julian Cooper |
| Parent | Winifred Gordon Bell (mother) |
Joan Ophelia Gordon Bell (1915–1975) was an English sculptor, known for her several commissions for the United Kingdom's Atomic Energy Authority.[1]
She was born in London on 1 July 1915,[citation needed] the daughter of the painter Winifred Gordon Bell,[1][2] (née Billinge; full name Winifred Joan Ophelia Gordon Bell[3]) and Frederick Lawrence Bell,[3] and was raised in the St John's Wood area.[4] In 1938, her address was listed as 13 Greville Place, London NW6.[5]
She studied at Regent Street Polytechnic in the 1930s[2] and exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and the Royal Scottish Academy, all before the age of 24.[1]
She married the landscape artist William Heaton Cooper (1903–1995) in 1940.[1] They lived in Grasmere in the English Lake District, and had two daughters and two sons,[1][6] one of them being the painter Julian Cooper.[7] Both Bell and her husband were followers of the teachings of the Christian Moral Re-Armament movement.[6] The couple held a joint exhibition at the Fine Art Society's London gallery in 1955.[1] Her auction record is £120, set at Anderson & Garland's auction house in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 14 July 2015, for her a composition sculpture of a mountaineer.[8]
Bell died in Grasmere in 1975 and is buried in the village cemetery.[1]
