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Jacques Pierre Paul Raverat (pronounced Rav-er-ah) (20 March 1885 – 6 March 1925) was a French painter; Raverat was the son of Georges Pierre Raverat and Helena Lorena Raverat, née Caron; he was born in Paris, France, in 1885. Raverat started at Bedales School in Steep, Hampshire in 1898. [1]
Gwen Raverat (1885-1957) The granddaughter of naturalist Charles Darwin, Gwen Raverat was one of the first women to insist on and achieve professional training as an artist. She attended the Slade School in 1908, quickly developing her own painterly style of wood-engraving.
Gwen Raverat. Gwen Darwin was born in Cambridge in 1885; the granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin and the first cousin of the poet Frances Cornford. She married the French painter, Jacques Raverat, in 1911 and they were active in the Bloomsbury Group and Rupert Brooke’s Neo-Pagan group until they moved to the south of France.
Jacques Raverat is now back in Cambridge and in love with Rupert’s friend Ka Cox. Gwen cuts 20 wood engravings in the year, her first an illustration to the ballad The Knight of the Burning Pestle. 1910 Jacques enrols at the Slade, becomes close to Gwen who visits Holland and Paris with Ka Cox.
Jacques Pierre Raverat, by then suffering from disseminated sclerosis, tried to join the French army as an interpreter. He failed, and the couple returned to England and lived at Weston, near Baldock, Hertfordshire, where their two daughters were born: Elizabeth on 26 December 1916 and Sophie Jane on 20 December 1919.
Gwen married the French mathematician and artist Jacques Raverat later in 1911. He was diagnosed with what we now call MS in 1914 when trying to enlist in the French army. They moved in 1920 to Vence, near Nice in the South of France, for his health. He died in 1925.
25 mag 2024 · Gwendolen and her husband, artist Jacques Raverat, lived in Vence in the South of France until Jacques died in 1925. Gwendolen returned to London and worked as a wood engraver, a book illustrator and an art critic.
