Ursula Tyrwhitt

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

Biography

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]

Further reading

  • Richard Buckle. Ursula Tyrwhitt: Oxford Painter and Collector. Ashmolean Museum, 1974, ISBN 978-0900090202

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Thomas, Alison (11 September 2025), "Tyrwhitt, Ursula (1873–1966), painter", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.90000382978, ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8, retrieved 2 October 2025{{citation}}: CS1 maint: work parameter with ISBN (link)
  2. ^ a b c d Buckman, David (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945, Vol 2, M to Z. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0-953260-95-X.
  3. ^ a b c "Painting". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  4. ^ "Ursula Tyrwhitt". National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  5. ^ Maj, Lec. "Gwen John, Ida Nettleship and Ursula Tyrwhitt". Yale Center for British Art. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  6. ^ Holroyd, Michael (2011). Augustus John: The New Biography. Pimlico. p. 552. ISBN 978-1845951849.
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