Ursula Tyrwhitt
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Ursula Tyrwhitt (1872–1966) was an English painter and draughtsman.
Ursula Tyrwhitt was born in Nazeing, Essex.[1] Her father was Henry Mervyn Tyrwhitt, the vicar of Nazeing, and his wife Jacqueline Frances Tyrwhitt (née Otter, the daughter of William Bruère Otter, Archdeacon of Lewes).[1]
Tyrwhitt was educated at Bromley High School.[1] She then studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1893 to 1894 and also in 1911 and 1912.[2] She also studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and in Rome at the British Academy.[2]
Tyrwhitt was a close friend of Welsh artist Gwen John and her brother Augustus Edwin John[3] and is the subject of a 1903 etching by him held by the National Portrait Gallery, London.[4] John also made a chalk drawing of her with Gwen John and Ida Nettleship (his first wife) which is held by the Yale Center for British Art in the Paul Mellon Collection.[5] Tyrwhitt made her only known sculpture while visiting Gwen John in France.[1]
Tyrwhitt exhibited with the New English Art Club and became a member in 1913.[2][3] Examples of her work are displayed in The National Library of Wales, the Tate Gallery, Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin and in the British Council collection.[1] The Ashmolean Museum held a retrospective exhibition in 1973 entitled Ursula Tyrwhitt, Oxford painter and collector 1872–1966.[3]
Tyrwhitt married her second cousin, the artist Walter Spencer Stanhope Tyrwhitt (1859–1932) at St James’s, Piccadilly, London, in 1913.[1][6] She lived in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife and also in Oxford, Oxfordshire.[2]
Trywhitt died in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, in 1966.[1]
