British artist Shannon's Lady in a Black Hat revealed to be a model who also inspired Augustus John

British artist Charles Haslewood Shannon (1863-1937) is closely associated with the Bloomsbury Group, the famous collective of writers, intellectuals and artists in early 20th-century London.

If you own a copy of Orlando, the novel by Bloomsbury stalwart Virginia Woolf, you may well recognis…

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