Portrait of Nina Hamnett

The subject of this portrait is the artist Nina Hamnett (1890-1956) who lived and painted in the bohemian art worlds of London and Paris. She worked with the artists known as the Bloomsbury Group at the Omega Workshops, which was founded in London by Roger Fry in 1913. In this portrait, Fry accentuates particular forms, such as the long, elegant line of Hamnett’s arm and hand. He also sharply delineates her bobbed haircut and the creases and contours of her plain working clothes, features that would have marked her as a strikingly modern woman to contemporary viewers.