Nina Hamnett was a Welsh artist and writer, and an expert on sailors' shanties, who became known as the Queen of Bohemia.
1917 portrait of Nina Hamnett painted by Roger Fry (Courtauld Gallery, London)
Hamnett was born at No.3, Lexden Terrace, Tenby, Wales[citation needed]
Nina Hamnett painted by Roger Fry, 1917, in a dress designed by Vanessa Bell and made at the Omega Workshops
The Little Tea Party (1915–16) by Walter Sickert depicts Hamnett and her husband.
Roger Eliot Fry was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments
Nina Hamnett
…period she became friendly with Olivia Shakespear and Ezra Pound. She went on to have a love affair with Brzeska, and later with Amedeo Modigliani and Roger Fry. On her first night in the Bohemian community she went to the café La Rotonde where the man at the next table introduced himself as "Modigliani, painter…
River with Poplars (ca. 1912)
Portrait of Clive Bell by Roger Fry (c. 1924)