Английская Википедия:Flavia Blois

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Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox artist Flavia Ria Joan Blois, later Baroness Burntwood, (28 December 1914Шаблон:Spaced ndash28 March 1980) was a British landscape artist.[1]

Biography

Blois was born at Cockfield Hall at Yoxford in Suffolk into the Blois family. Her father was Sir Ralph Barrett MacNaghten Blois, a baronet, and her mother was Winifred Grace Blois née Kennard.[1] Flavia Blois studied art in London, first at the Chelsea School of Art and then at the Euston Road School.[2][3] She studied in Paris during 1939 and 1940 after which she turned away from portrait painting to depicting landscapes and street scenes.[2] Blois painted many landscapes in the East Anglia countryside, usually working in oils in her studio from ink notes made outdoors.[2] She exhibited at the Royal Academy on a regular basis and with both the London Group and the New English Art Club.[3] During her career she had three solo gallery shows.[2]

In 1948 Blois married Julian Snow who, in 1970, became a Life peer as Baron Burntwood, having previously been the Labour Party MP for Lichfield and Tamworth.[1] Blois died in 1980 at Westminster in central London.[1]

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