Helen Muspratt Photographer

Helen Muspratt, triple self-portrait : copyright Jessica Sutcliffe

I'm really hoping the current covid crisis will have lifted from museums as well as everywhere else by the autumn, because the Bodleian Library in Oxford is scheduling an exhibition of original photographs from the Helen Muspratt archive there.   Due to open 16 October 2020.   

Helen Muspratt, Eileen Agar, copyright Jessica Sutcliffe

It will include all aspects of Muspratt's work, from  pioneering images of fellow artists like Eileen Agar and Paul Nash, 

through commercial university-town portraits  of eminent figures, to documentary accounts of the Soviet Union and Welsh valleys in the 1930s. 

Something from her daughter Jessica Sutcliffe about Muspratt's work here :  OUP blog

Gossip about Effie Millais

William Bell Scott to William Michael Rossetti
21 June 1855

"Millais's marriage is not a pleasant event.  What do you think of it?  a lady whose complaint against her husband is that reported of Mrs Ruskin is not an actress who will set much store by either good taste or the affections, and one may fear notoriety has got the better of the man who shares her role.  However other men  may see the matter in quite another light.  Were there any stolen waters in Millais's cup last [sic] year in the Highlands?  Were there any crim.con elements in that summer trip?'

Ms in Durham University Library

Tom KcKellar: Sargent's model

new information from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.  i'll try to attach image later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnmdEARSSwE&feature=emb_share&fbclid=IwAR08-jYKOBeFSnK8zxfFITqBm2QDLDya-HukC8tlRcu38EnBcWAGpzcZiz0