Vanessa Bell (1879 - 1961) was an English modernist painter, interior designer, sister to Virginia Wolf, and a leading member of the Bloomsbury Group.
Bell was, as can be seen by these images, an avid photographer, taking snapshots of her family and friends (including Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey, George Mallory, Leonard and Virginia Woolf and Roger Fry) from 1900 until the late 1940s, providing a unique visual record of the everyday life at their country residence of Charleston Farmhouse.
Vanessa Bell's daughter, Angelica Garnett (1918-2012), generously donated these photographs, along with their copyright to Tate in 1981, 1988 and 1992 for the benefit of both Tate and the Charleston Farmhouse Trust.
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![M03692 © Tate Images | Front cover of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911](/pix/m03/692/m03692_t.jpg)
![M03693 © Tate Images | Page 1 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images show Stella, Gerald a George Duckworth (top left), Mrs Herbert Duckworth & Gerald (top right), Stella Duckworth (bottom left & right).](/pix/m03/693/m03693_t.jpg)
![M03694 © Tate Images | Page 3 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images show Gerald Duckworth & Mrs Herbert Duckworth (top left), Stella Duckworth (top right, bottom left & right)](/pix/m03/694/m03694_t.jpg)
![M03695 © Tate Images | Page 2 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images show Gerald Duckworth & Mrs Herbert Duckworth (top left & right), Stella Duckworth (bottom left & right)](/pix/m03/695/m03695_t.jpg)
![M03696 © Tate Images | Page 4 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images show George Herbert Duckworth (top left & right, bottom right), Stella Duckworth (bottom left)](/pix/m03/696/m03696_t.jpg)
![M03697 © Tate Images | Page 5 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images show Gerald Duckworth](/pix/m03/697/m03697_t.jpg)
![M03698 © Tate Images | Page 6 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images show Mrs Bailey? (top right), Stella Duckworth & Vanessa Stephen (top left), Laura Stephen (centre), Mrs Duckworth & Minna Duckworth (bottom left), Julia Margaret Cameron (bottom right).](/pix/m03/698/m03698_t.jpg)
![M03699 © Tate Images | Page 7 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images show Unknown (top left), Mrs Mary Louisa Fisher (top right), ? & Julia Jackson (bottom).](/pix/m03/699/m03699_t.jpg)
![M03700 © Tate Images | Page 8 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images show Mrs Magdalene Alice Ritchie nee Brookfield (top left & right), Mrs McNamara (centre and bottom left), ? (bottom right).](/pix/m03/700/m03700_t.jpg)
![M03701 © Tate Images | Page 9 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images show Mrs Barley (top left), Mrs McNamara (top right), ? (bottom left and right).](/pix/m03/701/m03701_t.jpg)
![M03702 © Tate Images | Page 10 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Unknown portraits](/pix/m03/702/m03702_t.jpg)
![M03703 © Tate Images | Page 11 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images show Henry Cameron (top left), Empress Eugénie de Montijo (top right), unknown (bottom left), Caroline Emilia Stephen (bottom right)](/pix/m03/703/m03703_t.jpg)
![M03704 © Tate Images | Page 12 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images show Russell Duckworth (top left), Ralph Duckworth (top right), George Herbert Duckworth (bottom left), Gerald Duckworth (bottom right)](/pix/m03/704/m03704_t.jpg)
![M03705 © Tate Images | Page 13 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images show unknown (top left), Mrs Richmond Ritchie, Anne Isabelle Ritchie and Hester (top right), unknown (bottom left), W. W. Vaughan (bottom right)](/pix/m03/705/m03705_t.jpg)
![M03706 © Tate Images | Page 14 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images show Edmund Fisher (top left), unknown (top right), Births announcement from The Times for the birth of Adeline Virginia Stephen (Woolf) 1882 (bottom left), Mary O'Brien (bottom right)](/pix/m03/706/m03706_t.jpg)
![M03707 © Tate Images | Page 15 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images show George Herbert Duckworth (top left), Mr Wolstenholme & Arther Hort (cut out) Gerald Duckworth, Stella Duckworth, Virginia Stephen (Woolf), George Duckworth & Adrian Stephen (top right), The McNamara children (bottom)](/pix/m03/707/m03707_t.jpg)
![M03708 © Tate Images | Page 16 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images show Margaret Lushington (top left), Mary O'Brien(top right), Group including Gerald & Stella Duckworth and George Herbert Duckworth (bottom)](/pix/m03/708/m03708_t.jpg)
![M03709 © Tate Images | Page 17 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images show unknown (top left), Leslie Stephen (top right), Caroline Emelia Stephen (bottom)](/pix/m03/709/m03709_t.jpg)
![M03710 © Tate Images | Page 18 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images show Arthur Prinsep (top left), Hester Ritchie (top right), Regia Corsini (bottom left), Nancy & Michael Burlington Smith 1905 (bottom right)](/pix/m03/710/m03710_t.jpg)
![M03711 © Tate Images | Page 19 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images show unknown (top left), Mrs Ashton Dilke (top right), Fisherman Catching Pilchards at St. Ives (bottom left), Julie Princep Stephen (bottom right)](/pix/m03/711/m03711_t.jpg)
![M03712 © Tate Images | Page 20 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images show Walter Lamb (top left), James Russell Lowell (top right), George Herbert Duckworth & Florence Fisher (bottom left), missing print of William Heward Bell (bottom right)](/pix/m03/712/m03712_t.jpg)
![M03713 © Tate Images | Page 21 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Image shows Adeline Virginia Stephen (Woolf).](/pix/m03/713/m03713_t.jpg)
![M03716 © Tate Images | Page 25 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images show, Clive Bell, circa 1901 (top left), Clive Bell (top right), Dorothy Ball 1907 (bottom left), Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell & Mrs Bell 1907 (bottom right)](/pix/m03/716/m03716_t.jpg)
![M03717 © Tate Images | Page 26 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images all show Julian Thoby Stephen 1906](/pix/m03/717/m03717_t.jpg)
![M03718 © Tate Images | Page 27 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images show Adeline Virginia Stephen (Woolf) 1903 (top right), Julian Bell 1909 (bottom left), Julian Bell & Vanessa Bell 1908 (bottom centre), Julian Bell 1909 (bottom right)](/pix/m03/718/m03718_t.jpg)
![M03719 © Tate Images | Page 28 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images show Julian Bell & Vanessa Bell, Studland 1909 (top right), Julian Bell, Studland 1909 (top centre & left)](/pix/m03/719/m03719_t.jpg)
![M03720 © Tate Images | Page 29 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images all show Julian Bell 1909](/pix/m03/720/m03720_t.jpg)
![M03721 © Tate Images | Page 30 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images from Bleau near Canterbury 1910 show Julian Bell (top left), Julian Bell & Adeline Virginia Stephen (Woolf) (top right), Julian Bell (bottom left)](/pix/m03/721/m03721_t.jpg)
![M03722 © Tate Images | Page 31 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images from Bleau near Canterbury 1910 show Julian & Clive Bell (top left), Clive Bell (top right), Julian Bell (centre), Julian Bell & Nurse (bottom).](/pix/m03/722/m03722_t.jpg)
![M03723 © Tate Images | Page 32 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images from Bleau near Canterbury 1910 show Adeline Virginia Stephen (Woolf) & Julian Bell (top left), Clive Bell & Julian Bell (top right), Julian Bell (bottom right).](/pix/m03/723/m03723_t.jpg)
![M03724 © Tate Images | Page 33 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images from Bleau near Canterbury 1910 show Julian Bell (top left & right), Clive Bell, Adeline Virginia Stephen (Woolf) & Julian Bell (centre), Nurse Traill, Julian Thoby Stephen, Susan Lushington, Julian Bell, George Herbert Duckworth, Adeline Virginia Stephen (Woolf) & Vanessa Stephen](/pix/m03/724/m03724_t.jpg)
![M03725 © Tate Images | Page 34 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images from Garden Square show Adrian Leslie Stephen, Margaret Duckworth, Adeline Virginia Stephen (Woolf) & little Duckworths (top left), Sophy (top right), Nurse Spoor & Quentin Bell, aged 3 weeks (bottom left & right)](/pix/m03/725/m03725_t.jpg)
![M03726 © Tate Images | Page 35 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images show Nurse Spoor & Quentin Bell (top left), Julian Bell & Mabel at Studland 1910 (top right), Clive Bell, Mabel, Gurth, Vanessa Bell and Julian Bell (bottom left), Julian Bell, Clive Bell & Marjorie Strachey (bottom right)](/pix/m03/726/m03726_t.jpg)
![M03727 © Tate Images | Page 36 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images from Studland beach 1910 show Sydney & Alice Waterlow, Adeline Virginia Stephen (Woolf) (top left), Mabel & Julian Bell (top right & bottom left), H.J.T. Norton (bottom right)](/pix/m03/727/m03727_t.jpg)
![M03728 © Tate Images | Page 37 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images from Studland beach 1910 show Clive Bell, Julian Bell & Molly MacCarthy (top left), Marjorie Strachey & Clive Bell (top right), Vanessa & Julian Bell (bottom left), Adeline Virginia Stephen (Woolf), Clive & Julian Bell (bottom right).](/pix/m03/728/m03728_t.jpg)
![M03729 © Tate Images | Page 38 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images from Studland beach 1910 show Adeline Virginia Stephen (Woolf), Julian Bell & Mabel (top left), Adeline Virginia Stephen (Woolf), Clive & Julian Bell (top right), Adeline Virginia Stephen (Woolf) & Clive Bell (bottom right)](/pix/m03/729/m03729_t.jpg)
![M03730 © Tate Images | Page 39 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images from Studland beach 1910 show Saxon Sydney Turner, Adeline Virginia Stephen (Woolf), Clive & Julian Bell (top), Clive Bell, Marjorie Strachey, Desmond & Molly MacCarthy (middle left), Clive & Julian Bell (middle right), Saxon Sydney Turner, Clive Bell, AVS & Gurth (bottom)](/pix/m03/730/m03730_t.jpg)
![M03731 © Tate Images | Page 40 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images from Studland beach 1910 show Clive Bell rowing (top left), Vanessa & Julian Bell in a boat (top right), Clive Bell & Adeline Virginia Stephen (Woolf) (bottom right)](/pix/m03/731/m03731_t.jpg)
![M03732 © Tate Images | Page 41 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images from Studland beach 1910 show Vanessa Bell (top left), Clive, Vanessa & Julian Bell and Mabel (bottom left), Lady Ottoline Morrell (bottom right)](/pix/m03/732/m03732_t.jpg)
![M03733 © Tate Images | Page 42 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images from Seend 1911 show Julian Bell (top), Quentin Bell, Mrs Ball & Julian Bell (middle), Julian Bell (bottom)](/pix/m03/733/m03733_t.jpg)
![M03734 © Tate Images | Page 43 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images from Seend 1911 show Julian Bell (top & bottom), Quentin Bell, & Mr Ball (middle)](/pix/m03/734/m03734_t.jpg)
![M03735 © Tate Images | Page 44 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images from 1911 show Julian Bell & Mr Ball, Studland (top), Joan, Pamela, Roger & Julian Fry, Clive Bell & Julian Ball, Guildford (middle), Duncan Grant, Guildford (bottom left), Grant, Clive Bell & Simon Bussy, Guildford (bottom right)](/pix/m03/735/m03735_t.jpg)
![M03736 © Tate Images | Page 45 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images from Guildford 1911 show Nurse, Quentin & Julian Bell (top right & left), Roger Fry (bottom right).](/pix/m03/736/m03736_t.jpg)
![M03737 © Tate Images | Page 46 of a Photographic album owned by Vanessa Bell [1890s?] - 1911. Images from 1911 show Julian Bell, Guildford (top left), Mrs Ball with Quentin & Julian Bell, Seend (top centre), Nurse & Quentin, Guildford (top right), Clive & Julian Bell, Seend (middle & bottom left), Mrs Ball & Quentin, Seend (bottom right)](/pix/m03/737/m03737_t.jpg)