Natalie Bevan
Natalie Bevan | |
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| Born | Natalie Alice Ackenhausen 22 May 1909 Kensington, London, England |
| Died | 15 August 2007 (aged 98) Great Horkesley, Essex, England |
| Occupation | Artist, muse, and collector |
| Spouse(s) | Samuel Barclay
(m. 1986; died 2000) |
| Children | 2 (with Sieveking) |
| Parent(s) | Kurt Bernhard Heinrich Carl Ackenhausen Alice Katherine Inchbold Denny |
Natalie Alice Bevan (née Ackenhausen; 22 May 1909 – 15 August 2007), was a British artist, muse, and collector. She has been called, "one of the most beautiful and charismatic women of her generation".[1]
Early life[]
She was born Natalie Alice Ackenhausen on 22 May 1909 at 2 Pembroke Cottages, Edwardes Square, Kensington, London, the eldest of three children of Kurt Bernhard Heinrich Carl Ackenhausen (1878/79–1954),a German textile merchant, and his wife, Alice Katherine Inchbold Ackenhausen, née Denny (d. 1964/65), a children's book illustrator.[2] During the First World War, the family took up her mother's surname, Denny, and her father changed his given name to Court.[2]
Career[]
She was painted by Mark Gertler when she was aged 19, a 1928 portrait entitled Supper.[3]
She was a painter and ceramicist.[1]
Personal life[]
On 24 August 1929, she married the writer and pioneering radio and television producer Lancelot de Giberne Sieveking (1896–1972), and they had two daughters, the artist (1930–1988) and the photographer (born 1933).[2] Their marriage was dissolved in 1939.
On 11 July 1946, she married the advertising executive Bobby Bevan (1901-1974), the son of the painters Robert Polhill Bevan and Stanislawa de Karlowska, and they lived in Knightsbridge, London, and at Boxted House in Boxted, Essex.[2][4] In 1957, she became involved in a ménage à trois with Randolph Churchill, which continued until his death in 1968.[5][6]
On 26 March 1986, she married the sailor and writer Samuel Barclay (1920–2000).[2]
Later life[]
She died on 15 August 2007, at Great Horkesley Manor, a nursing home in Great Horkesley, and was buried at St Peter's Church, Boxted, Essex.[2]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Strang, Alice (28 August 2007). "Natalie Bevan". The Independent. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Alice Strang. "Bevan [née Ackenhausen], Natalie Alice". ODNB. OUP. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
- ^ "Intimate moments - The Spectator". The Spectator. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
- ^ "Natalie Bevan". The Times. 10 September 2007. Retrieved 28 November 2017 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
- ^ ""Randolph, Hope and Glory": Co-author of the Official Biography - The Churchill Project - Hillsdale College". Hillsdale College. 30 March 2016. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
- ^ Jonathan Aitken (30 July 2006). Heroes and Contemporaries. A&C Black. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-8264-7833-7.
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