Remembering Bloomsbury's Most Under-Celebrated Artist

Who? “Nessa has all that I should like to have,” Virginia Woolf wrote in 1908. Nessa, as she was known to her friends and family, was Vanessa Bell, Woolf’s elder sister, a painter, designer, wife, mother, and lover. In Woolf’s eyes she was “the Saint,” her character akin to “a bowl of golden water which brims but never overflows”. At the age of 18, after the death of their mother, Bell was charged with the duties of running the household for her father and…