Angelica bell

Nestled in bucolic Sussex gardens the seventeenth-century exterior belies the riot of imaginative decoration inside; a legacy of its function as artistic residence to the Bloomsbury Group.

Vanessa Bell’s bedroom at Charleston. Vanessa’s desk is a nineteenth-century French fall-front secretaire. Quentin [Bell] modelled the rather unconvincing terracotta likeness of his sister Angelica...

Interior with the Artist and Vanessa Bell’s Daughter - Angelica Bell, ca 1935-1936, Duncan Grant. Scottish, Camden Town Group Painter (1885-1978)

Lynsey Hanley reviews Mrs Woolf and the Servants: the Hidden Heart of Domestic Service by Alison Light

Life In Squares was partly filmed at Charleston (the first time permission has been granted for a drama), and using actual settings in the garden and house has added a veracity that perfectly evokes the creative pulse that still runs through the place.

Angelica, who died on May 4 aged 93, was the niece of writer Virginia Woolf and the illegitimate daughter of painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.

A heartwarming inter-generational collaboration of irreverent humor.

Virginia and Leonard Woolf with their niece Angelica Bell and the daughter of a friend.