Ethel Sands, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ethel Sands

American-born British artist, socialite, patron

Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1873

Place of Birth: Newport, Rhode Island, United States

Date of Death: 19-Mar-1962

Profession: socialite, painter

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Ethel Sands (6 July 1873 – 19 March 1962) was an American-born artist and hostess who lived in England from her early childhood.
She studied art in Paris for several years under Eugène Carrière, and it was there that she met Anna Hope Hudson (Nan), her life partner.
Her works were influenced by the artist Edouard Vuillard and Walter Sickert, and were generally of still lifes and interior scenes, many of which are of Château d'Auppegard that she shared with Hudson in France.
Sands was a Fitzroy Street Group and London Group member.
Her works are in the collections of museums, the National Portrait Gallery, London and public collections.
During both world wars, she nursed soldiers; she established a hospital in France in World War I.
In 1916 she was made a citizen of England. Due to her family's wealth she collected art and was a patron, but she is best known as a hostess for the cultural elite in her homes in England and Hudson's house in France.
Her friends included Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry, Augustus John and many other writers and artists of her day.
She continued to entertain into the 1950s when she was in her late 70s and 80s.