JULIAN TREVELYAN, R.A. (1910-1988)

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF KATHARINE 'KITTY' CHURCH JULIAN TREVELYAN, R.A. (1910-1988)Villa Gamberiasigned and dated Trevelyan '65 (lower right), signed again and inscribed Julian Trevelyan ''Villa Gamberia'' (on the stretcher)oil on canvas51.2 x 41.3 cm (20 1/4 x 16 1/4 in)Katharine Church, also known as Kitty, grew up around family friends from the fabled Bloomsbury Group. She studied at the Slade School of Art and at the Royal Academy, where she exhibited regularly in the early 1930s, alongside several London galleries. In 1936 she married Anthony West, the son of HG Wells and Dame Rebecca West, the eminent writer and journalist. They were visited regularly in the Dorset/Wiltshire countryside by a wide circle of friends that included painters Frances Hodgkins, John Piper and his wife Myfanwy, Ralph and Frances Partridge, Julian Trevelyan and Mary Fedden, as well as the publisher Noel Carrington, brother of Bloomsbury artist Dora. (See: J. Duncalfe, Katharine Church (1910-1999) A Life in Colour, Harrogate, 2015) Artist's Resale Rights may apply on this lot.