Gladys Kathleen Bell | |
Birth Name: | Gladys Kathleen Farrar |
Birth Date: | 1882 |
Death Place: | Haddenham, Buckinghamshire |
Nationality: | British |
Education: | Cope and Nichols' School of Art |
Field: | Miniature painting |
Spouse: | Reginald Bell |
Gladys Kathleen Madge Bell née Farrar (1882–1965) was a British artist and miniature painter.[1]
Bell studied at the Cope and Nichols' School of Art at Kensington in London.[2] From 1910 Bell exhibited at the Royal Academy some 28 times, mostly miniatures and portraits.[3] She also exhibited at the Paris Salon, at the Liverpool Academy of Arts and with the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, RMS.[2] Bell was elected a full member of the RMS in 1927.[1] A miniature by Bell was commissioned for Queen Mary's Dolls' House and is now in the Royal Collection.[4]
She was married to the stained glass artist Reginald Bell and the couple lived at Hampstead in London and later, at Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire.[1] Their son Michael Charles Farrar Bell also became an artist.[1]