Sophie Gurney

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Sophie Jane Gurney (née Raverat, formerly Pryor; 20 December 1919 – 10 June 2011) was an English artist, linked to many of the leading intellectual and cultural figures of the early 20th century. As an artist she preferred brightly coloured variations on natural forms, working in both gouache and print. She later became a member of the 21 Group. Gurney was born in 1919, the younger daughter of English wood engraver Gwen Darwin and French painter Jacques Raverat. Gurney was a great-granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin. Her father died in 1925 when she was only five years old. Gurney and her elder sister Elisabeth were temporarily taken into the care of her first cousin once removed Nora Barlow and her husband, Sir Alan Barlow. She was educated at home in Cambridge and then at the Perse School for Girls, before studying violin in Switzerland. She was accepted by the Royal College of Music, switching to medicine just prior to the outbreak of World War II, but later abandoned h

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